Word: ant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Chiu Ching-chuan (whose second in command is the Gimo's younger son, Chiang Wei-kuo) broke up a Communist attempt at encirclement, and helped other Nationalist divisions to fight their way back to the west and south. The well-watered North Kiangsu plain seethed like an ant heap with soldiers on the move, as Government Field Commander General Tu Yu-ming desperately shifted his men over rutted roads and torn-up rail tracks to establish a new line with its back to the broad Yangtze. Past the military columns rattled slow trains of flatcars, jammed with refugees...
...Statler's salons, they unpacked their special exhibits for the judges' inspection. One "young scientist had an ant hill; another brought a tesseract ("This is a three-dimensional representation," he explained, "of what a fourth-dimensional thing would look like, if there were a fourth dimension...
...believe that a shudder would go through the sky if our whole ant heap were kerosened. But then, it might-in short, my only belief is that I know nothing about...
...must lie. This time the copy looks good; and it is well above the average in published collegiate work. But "Burnt Mountain Revival," by William Austin Emerson, nearly overshadows its lively picture of hell's-fire-and-brimstone religion with contrived hillbilly dialogue ("Hit's a rite purty night, ant it,' Homer said, laying the paddle across the boat. 'God, he don't like a lot of rumpus, else why's it so quite out here.") Similarly, Robert K. Bingham's "Faux Pas" proceeds from an ingenious episode idea to pretty dubious execution of it. The infiltrating touches of amateurism...
...underground after his release from a German prison camp. His play, Les Mouches (The Flies), produced during the occupation, was an eloquent plea for freedom cloaked in a classic Greek legend. Sartre also found time to write a 700-page theoretical treatise, L'Etre et le Néant (Being and Nothingness...