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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...readers of the Hoover Institution's anthology, a simple moral emerges for the Red Chinese Commissar: those responsible for educational work in the army should have studied the reasons for these examples of backward thinking and tried to reform them. To that end, the Red Chinese army has developed a series of programs that sound like some sort of ideological drill manual. The "Three Skills Movement" emphasizes "four grasps and one investigation"; there are "five togethernesses" to combat the "five excessives" (excessive reports, excessive documents, excessive meetings, excessive persons in office, excessive general appeal) and two remembrances, which...
Chuvalo, a plodding Toronto dogfighter has never yet been knocked off his feet, never took a backward step and drew repeated cheers from the partisan crowd as he battered away at Clay's body while catching a steady barrage of pot-shots in his own face from Clay's left...
...bettors stop there. They can get 70 to 1 for guessing the last two figures of the winning number, 700 to 1 for the last three figures, 6,000 to 1 for getting all four figures right. They can play their hunches backward or forward, in combinations or alone, and by paying extra and accepting lower odds, apply their bets to as many as seven separate drawings...
...promise, both immediate and distant. Pardee has just these final two months to break 7 ft., but he could do it. He takes off several feet further back than the average jumper, getting tremendous spring from his forward motion. He can reach 6 ft., 7 in. with a backward roll, and could, with more upward and less forward spring, go much higher. Both Schoonover and Bell have shown rapid improvement, and, says McCurdy, they could break 15 ft. in the vault this spring...
After tripping backward into a love triangle, Ivanov, queasy with guilt, lashes out directly at his wife (a convert from Judaism played by Vivien Leigh). Gielgud's fingers claw at the nonexistent handle of a desk drawer, his eyes hesitate. His voice pauses for an instant and then spills out the word, "Jewess!" Finally, he tells her the doctor thinks she will die very soon, and his flaring agitation dies down to remorse...