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...assessed for customs would probably just cancel out the newspaper's "value" the way the government will compute it. For La Nación, which got no specific deadline to pay its $1,250,000 in back duties, the message was an ominous hint of doom...
Died. Colonel General Vasily Vasilie-vich Ulrich, 62, who as presiding judge of the Moscow purge trials in the '305 teamed up with Public Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky to doom scores of erstwhile comrades, won for himself the tag of "Stalin's Executioner," the reputation of having pronounced more death sentences than any other "jurist" alive; of undisclosed causes; in Moscow...
...added an implied threat: "The enemy therefore must by now be painfully aware that a decision of the United Nations to depart from its tolerant effort to contain the war to the area of Korea through expansion of our military operations to his coastal areas and interior bases would doom Red China to the risk of imminent military collapse...
...enemy, therefore, must by now be painfully aware that a decision of the United Nations to depart from its tolerant effort to contain the war to the area of Korea through expansion of our military operations to his coastal areas and interior bases would doom Red China to the risk of imminent military collapse...
...half an hour before the Miracle Youth appeared, assorted assistants built up an atmosphere of gloom and doom. A choir from the local Zion Bible Institute offered a morbid song called "Night and Day." Many of the lines, like "night is so depressing," reminded one of the famous "Gloomy Sunday" which drove scores of Europeans to suicide. After this selection, a former African missionary made ecstatic comments, "If angels can sing as well as that, I'm going to heaven--how about you?" There were shouts of "Yes, Oh Yes Jesus" from the front rows. Then the "Connecticut Songbird...