Word: war-torn
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...Peculiar Group." In an effort to duck taxes, he turned to building and refurbishing cargo ships, an operation which the West German government, eager to restore its war-torn merchant marine, made completely tax deductible. Oldtime Hamburg shipping men scornfully dubbed Oetker's armada the "baking powder fleet," but through astute management his fleet of 67 tankers and freighters has kept busy without resorting-as some German shipping companies have-to running Soviet-bloc cargoes for Castro. Characteristically, Oetker got into the insurance business to pare his premiums, built his Condor companies into one of Germany's biggest...
...War Hunt, set in war-torn Korea, is about a war lover, a man for whom war is not hell but home. How this leads to the corruption of an innocent Korean boy is only one among many strata of meanings explored in this low-budget film made with high intelligence and high...
...airs, when things really got tough in Nazi Germany, Ulbricht was one of the first to run out. As a Communist agent he took refuge in Prague, then Paris. In between, there were the months in civil war-torn Spain when, from his base at Albacete, he took on the OGPU-assigned task of purging the West European "Trotskyites," i.e.. anti-Stalinists. What made Walter Ulbricht famous in Spain was his ingenious torture chamber, a cell of granite blocks too small for a man to stand...
...detested even in his own circle. No one can forget that he made no protest as Stalin purged dozens of his fellow German Communists in the World War II days, when much of the party fled to Moscow for asylum from Hitler. Ulbricht was apparently happy to see his political rivals disposed of. In May 1945, it was Ulbricht who led the little ten-man convoy of Communist leaders into war-torn Berlin to start the regime that today holds East Germany in a grip of iron...
...well-to-do St. Louis (steel fabricating) family, he graduated with a middling record from Notre Dame and St. Louis University's medical school, and his professors thought him destined to be a society doctor. Instead, Dooley volunteered for duty as a U.S. Navy doctor, was sent to war-torn Indo-China where he took part in the 1954 evacuation of 610,000 anti-Communist refugees from North Viet...