Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average of 150 a day. Rosenow examines each person's credentials of fear: arrest certificates, summonses to work in uranium mines. A few lucky applicants are flown to Western Germany. Others must remain in Berlin, return to their homes, or continue their perilous journey afoot through the Russian zone to the West. Rosenow explained: "Panic alone is not enough. We have that everywhere. We can hope to help only those who must flee to live-and perhaps to fight again another...
...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...
Today, 68-year-old Bishop Dibelius is again fighting for freedom of the Church-this time, in the Russian zone of Germany, against the Communists. His fearless words, in & out of the pulpit in Berlin, have made him the outstanding spokesman of Protestantism in eastern Germany. By electing him, the Bielefeld delegates have thrown the whole weight of their support to the Church in the east...
...question was how to stop them. Confessed L.I.U.'s famed Coach Clair Bee: "Why should I pay $100 for a scouting report when I know everything there is to be known about them. [They're] terrific." He sent his men into a zone defense, a desperation move...
Mutt & Jeff. St. Louis began shooting L.I.U.'s zone full of holes with speed and fancy fingertip passing. On the bench sat tough, little (5 ft. 6 in.) Ed Hickey, once a practicing lawyer, now the brain of the Billikens. Coach Hickey wasn't nervous (he said). Always at close hand was his briefcase, crammed with diagrammed plays, notes and scouting reports. The other man who made the Billikens go was towering (6 ft. 8 in.) Charles Edward...