Word: followings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Kleoniki Kiprou from Monopilo Kastoria: "First they hanged the priest, then they cut off his mother's hands, and then they ordered us to follow them. What could we do?" In Albania her eight-year-old girl and five-year-old boy were taken from her and a rifle was thrust into her hands. Tapping the weapon, the rebel capetdnias said: "This is your husband, this your child." Kleoniki was forced into the battle of Vitsi. She deserted and got back to her village-without her children. In Fourka Konitsa, the villagers learned in advance of the guerrillas...
...little girls follow Hall's New Nursery Rhymes for Old version they will no longer sing that little boys are made of "frogs and snails and puppy-dogs' tails." According to Hall...
Woman's Rights. In Edinburgh, after due consideration, the Lord Justice ruled that because Kathleen Love threw her engagement ring in her fiance's face, it did not follow that she intended to break off the engagement: ". . . To say that the return of a ring by a woman was, in all cases, an irrevocable step would be to deprive the female sex of one of its most cherished privileges, and literature and the stage of one of their most hackneyed situations...
...Adams experiment looks like a good idea from every angle. All the Houses might well follow suit...
...Soviet historians, Eckardt goes over Ivan's matted reign with a fine-tooth comb; unlike them, he refrains from minimizing the diabolical cruelties of a despot who made even such a hard-faced operator as Cesare Borgia look like a cherubic innocent. Nonetheless, Eckardt does his best to follow the rule he paraphrases from Philosopher Benedetto Croce: "Not to insist upon a description of horrors in history [but] to find in sorrow and terror the starting-point of a new development...