Word: four
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week Ilse's hysterics and absence from the courtroom did not delay her trial. The procession of witnesses went on, was expected to continue at least another four weeks. Since West Germany has abolished the death penalty, the prosecution hopes to put Ilse behind bars for life...
TIME Reporter Judith Friedberg concluded a four-week tour through Yugoslavia, reported...
...stoning and cudgeling Europeans and Eurasians, overturning automobiles, driving whites into terrified hiding. Singapore's Malay police seemed to have no heart to restrain their coreligionists. British and Gurkha troops, with bayonets and riot shields, barred the mob from a march on the Convent of the Good Shepherd, four miles outside the city, where Bertha and mama Hertogh waited for a plane to Holland. There the girl doffed her Moslem veil for European dress, tried to remember her Dutch, fondled a doll, told her mother: "It's hard having two mothers. I love you, and I love Aminah...
...sharp-eyed reporter for the New Statesman and Nation thought it was time to clear up the mystery of Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's "secret" four-day trip to England. Platonist Ben-Gurion was browsing through some rare Greek volumes in an Oxford book shop...
...birth of the Savior?" Methodist Pastor Charles Ray Goff, a fellow Chicagoan, condemned what he called "heavy-drinking office parties. Office staff members," he said, "are caught with their guards down; they do not want to take part in the drinking, but are dragged in ... Last Christmas I saw four girls come out of an office building and go reeling down the sidewalk so intoxicated they could hardly stand. None could have been more than 20 years old. It was a shameful sight. I hope employers will look into this practice and try to devise some more appropriate kind...