Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose name had become a word for venal treachery faced nine judges (five of them laymen) in an old Oslo lodge hall. There was no shred of dignity in his defense, only a trace of defiance in his demeanor. He sat lumpily in the prisoner's box, his reddish, thinning hair unkempt, his neck shrunken in an oversize collar, his blue eyes beady in a suet face...
...cleaned the detective bureau of $10,000 in cash and jewelry, left a litter of 70-odd cigaret butts and burnt matches. Few days later gunmen pinched one of Mayor Kelly's brand-new police-escort cars, used it in four holdups, finally abandoned it and vanished without trace...
...Russians, who had done all the investigating in Berlin, had not amended their reports that 1) no trace of Hitler had been found; 2) no believable witnesses in their custody had actually seen him die; 3) Hitler had ordered his henchmen to spread the story that he was dead...
Liao Chang-shin was an innkeeper in Changshow, a little Yangtze river port some 60 miles from Chungking. Business was brisk and Liao seemed at peace with the world. When, from time to time, somebody disappeared in Changshow without leaving a trace, the innkeeper, like most of Changshow's citizens, shrugged his shoulders. People are always disappearing these days...
...Marshal Zhukov told Allied correspondents visiting Berlin that 1) Hitler married his blonde companion, Eva Braun, two days before Berlin fell; 2) no identifiable trace of Hitler had been found...