Word: underground
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Veteran of the Belgian Underground...
...overwhelming 319-to-38 vote the House passed a bill last week which, in the end, would probably drive the U.S. Communist Party underground...
...Tiferet Israel resembles a Dali-like nightmare with gaping walls and smashed dome. House after house is similarly blown down or crushed in by explosives. But the Jews are still holding on despite their hopeless position. The main thing in the Jews' favor is a labyrinth of underground passages through which they move from house to house...
...summer of 1944 the French Resistance press came out from, its underground print shops with ink on its hands and blood in its eye. In Paris and the provinces, squads of grim newsmen toting Tommy guns took over the Nazi-controlled newspaper plants and ousted the collaborationists. Almost overnight, the press of the nation was reborn...
World Without Visa , is one of those many-leveled books that sometimes appears to have half a dozen plots, and sometimes none at all. Dozens of sharply drawn characters move through it, their lives intertwined in frantic quests for visas, underground resistance, concentration-camp ordeals, involved political discussions and harried interludes of personal life. With a strong awareness of social gradations, Author Malaquais shows Marseille under the Vichy regime as divided into four groups: the scum, the innocents, the resisters, and the victims...