Word: strangest
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Hurtling Fugitives. One of the strangest manifestations of this unparalleled tragedy of blood was the weird fugitives who, shouting "Sanctuary!", suddenly hurtled out of the Communist night that had covered the activities of many of them and sought refuge in capitalist countries. Among the more distinguished refugees were Ignace Reiss (assistant chief of the West European Section of the NKVD), General Walter Ginsberg Krivitsky (chief of the West European Section of the Red Army's Military Intelligence) and Alexander Barmine. Reiss's body was found riddled with 15 bullets on a lonely road in Switzerland. Krivitsky...
...Treasury attorney whose salvage units rescued 2,340 men from the waters off Omaha Beach in the first 48 hours after Dday. Both the Commodore and his executive officer work right alongside their men in easy informality, sometimes have to argue their zealous divers into knocking off work. The strangest fruit they have plucked out of Manila harbor: a Jap ship filled with glass marbles...
...strangest victim of the revolt was the Algerian Communist Party. Like the French Communist Party last spring (TIME, Feb. 12), the Algerian Communists suddenly abandoned their traditional anti-imperialism, took a stand against the natives (presumably, Communists want to keep intact the French Empire which they may one day rule). Furious Algerian nationalists retaliated by killing one local Communist Party secretary and beating up other Communists...
...survived (portage, grand rapids, mile, prairie), but by the time a few generations of American settlers had gone to work on them, L'eau Froide (cold water) was Low Freight, Pomme de Terre was Pumly Tar, and the dignified river L'Ours (bear) was simply Louse Creek. Strangest of all, perhaps, was the fate of a settlement named after the Dutchman De Geoijen. In short order it became De Queen, and the local news paper De Queen...
With the announcement that it was offering its 509,550 common shares of National Bank of Detroit stock for sale to the public, General Motors Corp. last week wrote an end to one of the strangest careers in banking history...