Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words froze. He wouldn't permit them, nor would he understand them." The commissar rose to pronounce judgment: Journalist Strong was to be expelled for spying. "I tried once more to protest that I wasn't a spy ... He said, 'Dismissed,' very curtly, and I went...
...Radek went on trial in Moscow as a Trotskyite and traitor against the Soviet Union. He was accused of trying to make a deal with the Nazi Germans to bring about a "new revolution" in Russia. Explaining the failure of his plot in court, Radek made the memorable statement: "We had plenty of professors, but no good murderers." He was sentenced to ten years in jail. His whereabouts since 1947, when he was theoretically released, are unknown. But his policy of "national Bolshevism," in various guises, has become Communist s.o.p. It was not the first or last time that Joseph...
...headquarters in nearby Louvigné, Lieut. Jean Leroux of the Gendarmerie Nationale got up from his desk and went to the roof. He was supposed to help the revenuers and he would have to discipline the tocsin-sounders, but there was no great rush. Leroux paid no attention as farmers barricaded their barn doors and pulled their little wagon-stills into the fields to be hidden under piles...
...moved into a thatched
hut behind his house, and taken a vow of chastity (he has eight
children). Thakin Nu's friends said that he was devoting himself to
becoming a Buddha 999 worlds from now. Recently, Thakin Nu and
thousands of other residents
...does each year at the Spring Festivals, a beauty queen last week took up her reign in Mexico City. Titian-haired Luz del Carmen ("Moy") Otero rode into the bullfight ring at the head of a 16-car cavalcade, presided at horse races, and went to a ball every night. Moy had a fine time and so did her father, suave General Ignacio Otero, commandant of the First Military Zone. Moy owed it all to Daddy...