Word: anvils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playwright Macken acts Paddo with a good deal of skill. But instead of exploring Paddo with a scalpel, he merely keeps coming down on him like a sledge on an anvil, while his victims' endless denunciations swell matters into an anvil chorus...
...usual, when Disney is being his lighthearted, heavy-footed self, there are a few real esthetic crashers to boggle at. The worst scene features a number of bighorn rams ramming each other tirelessly, in time with the Anvil Chorus...
Though the British have killed 4,600 Mau Mau in firefights and by execution, the terror in Kenya lives on. Last week the Security forces completed Operation Anvil, rounding up 35,000 Africans in the capital city of Nairobi. Of these, they penned 26,500 Kikuyu in concentration camps, or on Manda Island where no guards are needed because the Indian Ocean swarms with sharks. But still the terror spread...
...eight years older than his boss and ally, Georgy Malenkov, but both men regard themselves as "second-generation Communists" - too young to have been bomb-throwers in Czarist days, but old enough to have been hardened on Stalin's anvil. Said a German Foreign Office man who met Khrushchev in Moscow: "He is one of the best examples of the young Bolshevik - like Malenkov a fat, brutal, intelligent fonctionnaire, a new type created by Stalin: undogmatic, unintellectual, but effective rulers...
Andrew Kramer's first instrument shop was set up in the Smithsonian's stable, which he shared with a taxidermist and Dr. Langley's horse and buggy. There he set up his footpower lathe, forge, anvil and other primitive equipment; there he made metal parts for Langley's much-derided airplane (which almost but not quite flew, before the Wrights'); and there he built fine instruments as no one else could...