Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abuse from the Chairman, lashed back at him. "You f-ed my mother for 40 days," Peng told Mao, "so why can't I f- yours for 20?" Recalling the incident later, Mao wryly observed: "Even 20 days wasn't enough, and so we had to abandon our work at the meeting." The Chairman, of course, had the last word. After the conference, he sacked Peng as Defense Minister and Politburo member...
...many of the 10,000 members of USIA are liberal Democrats left over from former Administrations. The widely respected information officer in one Communist country was replaced for being too much the scholarly diplomat and not enough the activist type. The editor of an intellectual journal was warned to abandon his "terrific liberal bias." Grumbled one veteran from the Democratic years: "Shakespeare wants gung-ho Kiwanis boosters in Communist countries. What we need are officers who can sit down and patiently negotiate cultural-exchange agreements...
...group that met Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin at Peking Airport. Last month Li was the first Chinese official to make a statement on Richard Nixon's major address on Viet Nam. His line at the time was a tough one. He charged that "U.S. imperialism will never abandon its criminal aim of vainly trying to perpetuate its forcible occupation of South Viet Nam." He also condemned the Middle East policies of both the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The two nations, said Li, are trying to "intimidate, bribe, deceive and divide the Arab countries...
...Yale offers a translation that tries to stay faithful to Dante's poetic rhythms but wisely avoids any attempt to match his terza rima rhyme scheme. As in many translations of classics, there are disquieting changes in well-known lines. Gary's familiar 1814 "All hope abandon, ye who enter here," for instance, becomes "Bid hope farewell, all ye who enter here." It may be more reflective, but it is less ominous and powerful. Leonard Baskin's murky, impressionistic black-and-white line drawings and washes fail to evoke Dante's sulphurous and radiant visions. They...
...raise some money for a new underground paper called Dock of the Bay by putting out a sex sheet, "a quick porny." On the eve of its publication, several angry young women spirited the entrepreneur away in a car and after twelve hours of intensive indoctrination persuaded him to abandon his plans on the ground that pornography degrades women. The copy for the magazine, dirty pictures and all, was burned in the backyard of one of the girls. "Just roasting marshmallows," said the one-time Camp Fire Girl who masterminded the abduction...