Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pressure. I talked with Oskar Kochne, a blue-eyed, 21-year-old veteran of the Soviet zone's uranium mines. He was still wearing his dark blue miner's cap with its little aluminum shield of crossed hammers. Oskar was taken by the Russians almost two years ago, as he was traveling toward East Prussia to rejoin his family. The Reds sent him to the mining camp at Aue. He has worked there since, rising at 1:30 every morning, traveling two hours by rail to the closely guarded mines, working until 1 in the afternoon...
...imprisonment of Veteran Davis Knight in Mississippi for intermarriage, following a revengeful relative's disclosure that Knight's great-grandmother was a Negro [TIME, Dec. 27], is a most flagrant violation of democratic spirit. It is a beautiful story for Russian distribution in Europe and Asia...
...Fair Dealers. Who were the new men of the Fair Deal? Returning veterans, like Iowa's white-haired, 69-year-old Senator Guy Gillette were freshmen, and perhaps Fair Dealers, in name only. Texas' New Dealing Lyndon Johnson and Tennessee's Estes Kefauver had won their spurs in the. House, and now would wear them in the Senate. Illinois' able Paul Douglas, 56, was a onetime leftish college professor (University of Chicago) and a wounded, decorated Marine veteran...
...latest novel, Born 1925, begins in point of time where Testament left off. Hero Robert Carbury is a veteran of World War I whose sense of guilt (he won the Victoria Cross for killing Germans) leads him to pacificism and the ministry. His actress wife admires Robert but goes on loving her first husband, lost in the war. Their son and daughter, growing up in the foreshadow of a second war, find father's Christlike character dull. Son Adrian joins the army in a rebellious climax to years of boyhood revolt, but at the end, in the ruins...
Then, the veteran Bellboy team gathered itself and, led by sparkplug Goldie Goldsmith, began calmly and smoothly to overtake the fast-tiring and worried Kirkland five. The turning point came then Goldsmith stole the ball twice in succession and laid it up for scores. After that, Lowell turned on the pressure and won going away, Goldsmith getting points. It was the fifth straight victory for Lowell, and Kirkland's third less against two wins. Kirkland walked off with the B league game...