Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their early 20s awaited the hangman. Andreas Zakos and Charilaos Mikhail, condemned for ambushing a British army jeep and killing its driver, lay placidly on their cots and listened to records of Bach and Beethoven. Iacovos Patatsou, who had been condemned for killing a Turkish Cypriot policeman (out of uniform), accepted the farewell of his widowed mother: "Face death with courage...
...less than a week later, Mossadegh was through. Though Iran's oil has remained its own property ever since, it is piped out by an international consortium. As for Mossadegh, he was dragged weeping and screaming into court in the bathrobe and pajamas that were his habitual uniform, and after a gaudy trial, sentenced to three years of solitary confinement. "This sentence," he told the court in a flood of tears, "has increased my historic glory...
...paraphrased as a deluge of offal. But the skilled producer-director-writer team of John and Roy Boulting (Seven Days to Noon) keeps all this nonsense spinning along blithely, has made Private's Progress a sort of British-accented Keystone Kaper, with pratfalls, chases and cuties in uniform that any nationality can relish without special training...
Among them: Captain Calamai, his uniform grimy, his braided cap gone, his face solemn and sad. Next day Stockholm limped in at seven knots and docked with more than 500 survivors. On the pier, some families who had gone from ship to incoming ship searching for kin turned and sadly walked away...
...long as he can remember, Fred Knorr has been in love with baseball. But as a kid on the sandlots of Detroit, he broke his thumb and spent most of his time on the sidelines. Later, at Hillsdale (Mich.) College, he had to turn in his uniform and spend his spare time working for his tuition. Last week, at 42, Fred Knorr finally decided that he would never make the team. So he did the next best thing. He bought one-the Detroit Tigers...