Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...propaganda organizations operate out of West Berlin. Inevitably, their endless, shadowy war with the 60,000 Communist agents operating out of East Germany creates clamorous incidents in West Berlin, exposes the city to endless complaints from Moscow. Willy, like most Berliners, has come to regard some of the underground groups as "grownups playing cowboys and Indians," would like to find a way to rid his city of "certain undesirable activities in the twilight zone of political propaganda...
During the early 1920s, while the Reds and Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang were in uneasy alliance against the anarchic Chinese warlords, Liu worked as a labor organizer, surfaced from time to time in Canton, Shanghai, Manchuria. Repeatedly jailed, he was a top underground leader in the harsh 1927 fighting in Shanghai between the Communist labor unions and Chiang Kaishek, described in André Malraux's novel Man's Fate. Liu's first wife reportedly tried to commit suicide at the party's underground headquarters, and he hired a ricksha to take...
...Christendom's foremost city. But the Copts' Monophysite theology (which holds that Christ has only a single nature in which the human and divine are blended) was eventually condemned by the Council of Chalcedon in 451, and with the emergence of Islam, Coptic Christianity virtually went underground for centuries...
...after another, French governments came and went, but the shadowy figure of Roger Wybot stayed on, one of the few permanent fixtures of the Fourth Republic. A former leader of the French underground, Wybot had been made head of France's crack counterintelligence service in 1945 when he was only 33. Under him, the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire spread so far, wide and mysteriously that it was once described as "a gigantic spider web, in the middle of which waits Wybot, his pipe in his mouth, in his soundproof office on the Rue des Saussaies." Some said...
...week a Moslem who accidentally exploded a hand grenade, injuring no one but himself, was beaten to death by a street crowd; so, for good measure, was his companion. In West Germany, in an odd echo of the Algerian troubles, the public prosecutor of Frankfurt charged that a French underground organization called "the Red Hand" had murdered five Swiss and German citizens in a clandestine war against Central European businessmen engaged in selling arms to Algeria's rebel F.L.N...