Word: underground
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later he was arrested twice by the Gestapo on suspicion of having played a part in underground activities. He was quickly released. But in the Gestapo jails, he was kept sleepless by the cries of agony from other prisoners. "I said to myself," he said later: "How can these same fellows now be so cruel who served under me in Cologne as good citizens and efficient policemen...
...French were cautious about Germany, they were bold about the matter of unity. Said France's Georges Bidault: "A united Europe can only come about by giving up some sovereignty..." France's Pierre-Henri Teitgen, underground hero and a leader of M.R.P., naively proposed that the slogan, "My country, right or wrong," be outlawed...
...shovels are mostly Chinese; for the past 20 years they have had a monopoly on Communism among the easygoing Siamese. The government gave the Siamese Communist party legal status in 1946 (to win Russian support for its bid for U.N. membership), but the Reds continue to work entirely underground; when known Chinese Communists are caught, they are deported. Siam's 30,000 Communist party members have no real leader, but the man most frequently tagged as their boss is slender, ferret-faced Ku Kip, a Chinese Communist veteran who saw service under notorious Comintern Agent Michael Borodin...
Varjonen has built up a unique anti-Communist underground which infiltrates unions to counteract Communist infiltration, matches the Communists cell for cell. Said one of Varjonen's men: "It is hard work fighting Communists. You have to be ready every day, every hour...
Fumes of Tobacco. Industry dismayed him, and so did London with its "leagues of lights"; he roamed the streets in horror that the seething crowds he found there would soon be lying horizontal underground. Like the middle class whose poet he became, Tennyson spent most of his life in a vague struggle to soften, to disavow the harsh materialism of mines and factories that made the wealth of England and killed her poor in slums; to cling to the beauty of the spirit and to belief...