Word: blandings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would become curator of a Bureau of National Culture. The mint would present some problems, since a new currency would be necessary. A picture of Dean Bundy, however, could adorn the one dollar bill, Master Perkins the five, and John R. Thompson on the hundred. The thousand would remain bland until someone donates a new theatre. The revenue problem would be solved by a toll road on Mass. Avenue, a sales tax on the Bick, the Waldorf, Elsie's and Cahaly's, and a Casino to be instituted in Memorial Hall...
...good humor seemed just as unruffled, his expression just as bland, when a reporter asked if he felt "any sense of guilt for your part in the Stalin purges." Replied the only surviving member of the special commission that carried out Stalin's party liquidations of the '30s: "Under collective leadership we always feel responsible for the shortcomings and errors we have made, and we openly admit them to our people. This helps rectify the position." Still smiling, Malenkov wound up confidently promising that the Soviet Union would win "the battle of coexistence" in "much less than...
...behind the bland smile had been a watchful eye, appraising his audience well, and judging what should and should not be done during Khrushchev's and Bulganin's visit a fortnight hence. He had seen the unanimous press attack on Secret Police Chief Ivan Serov, denouncing Serov as a "thug," "butcher" and "murderer" when Serov flew in last month to check security arrangements for K. & B. And though Russian Ambassador Jacob Malik had said repeatedly that Serov would nonetheless accompany K. & B., Moscow last week discreetly dropped the head terrorist from the list of top Communists coming...
Almost simultaneously with Nasser's deal for Communist arms, Libya agreed to establish diplomatic relations with Russia, negotiating the deal in Cairo with no notice to Western powers. Short, bland Russian Ambassador Nikolai Generalov, under the sponsorship of El Faki, wasted no time in making capital...
This world is one that makes genius tear its hair with rage, the world that drove William Blake and D. H. Lawrence half-mad with revulsion. But Hartley is too bland to feel revulsion. Like a scientist who wants to see what will happen, he throws a wench into Harold's work and a wolf into Isabel's life...