Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sympathizers" were threatened with severe penalties. In Athens some 500 Communists were already under arrest as a result of an episode three weeks ago when a policeman saw three men get out of a taxi carrying a suspicious cloth bag. When he tried to question them, they shot him dead, then fled through the ruins at the base of the Acropolis. (The cloth bag, it turned out, contained arms.) One of the three, a Communist hatchetman named Stamatis Bitsikas, was caught, broke down under interrogation and confessed a Red plot to murder Stylianos Gonatas, head of the National Liberal Party...
...Dead Remained. "Yet even yesterday, when the last troops had disappeared . . . the great camp . . . had still a lingering civilized appearance. The trees looked as beautiful as ever in the sparkling morning air and chrysanthemums were blooming in the gardens. The church . . . was still undesecrated. The British graveyard, where 120 British dead had been left behind, was neat and trim. The glass gleamed in the windows of the . . . barracks which are like rows of suburban villas. Some chimneys were smoking with their last fires. The cinema was there, with the announcement of In Which We Serve still flapping against its wall...
...preaches sermons that are genuine expositions of the text and sense of Scripture, bringing to bear the great Biblical themes of God's judgment and mercy upon men who are dead in their complacency, self-confidence or pride? Your preachers . . . are still advocating justification by good works of one kind or another (maybe very orthodox or very 'Catholic' good works); they are not proclaiming the Gospel of salvation by faith in Jesus Christ. . . . You are still preaching the Law, and a pretty easy going or romantic Law at that...
Mehl wanted the power to regulate commodity margins as the Federal Reserve Board regulates stock margins. He pointed out that since Oct. 7, when the grain exchanges had boosted their margins to 33⅓%, speculation has "declined sharply." Commodity traders, who are dead set against any governmental control of margins, took no comfort from Mehl's report. But New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram cried that Mehl had performed a "public service" in showing how high stock exchange margins had helped bring on the speculation in commodities. However, Schram thought that the answer was not to raise commodity...
...does marry Henry (she eventually does), will she ever manage really to forget Dana's extramarital embraces? And will Henry ever be free of his dead wife, and of the reverberations of the war? And if Dana's wife at last gets around to divorcing him, and he comes after Joan, which man will she choose? Or will she choose either? To Dana, and to most of the audience, all this looks easy. But you never can tell about women...