Word: bloodlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Howard Leondar's "Mrs. Benson" is described as a "section of a novel." Perhaps, in the context of the entire work, this "section" has meaning; as an excerpt it does not. Mrs. Benson and the other inhabitants of Whitefield are bloodless, unfathomable creatures. Leondar's dialogue fails to give reality to his characters, and is seldom incisive in itself; occasionally a line like this appears: "What is three nights when we think of eternity? A mere ... how shall I put it ... drop in the bucket...
...Brazilian army rose in a bloodless coup to overthrow Dictator Getulio Vargas. Ever since, the date has been celebrated as a kind of second independence day,* with speeches about democracy and grateful bows to the army for ending 15 years of strong-arm rule. This year, with presidential election tallies showing Getulio Vargas leading almost two to one, Brazilians wondered whether or not the Oct. 29 "Week of Democracy" would be observed. Last week the army, navy and police gave them the answer: since no one had ordered any festivities, there would be no celebration...
...Mainz without fanfare, in assault boats. After that, the XX Corps' hardest fighting was at Kassel, where the Germans fought wildly and vainly to prevent Allied encirclement of the Ruhr. The Reich's back was broken and the rest of the XX Corps' progress, though not bloodless, was relatively easy. After Weimar, Jena, Nurnberg, Regensburg, Walker in early May reached Linz, in Austria, the farthest point of the Third Army's advance...
...Need we cavil at the small price we have paid for a bloodless revolution which has affected the destinies of millions of our peoples?" With this eloquent plea, Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Patel last year won over reluctant Congressmen to his plan for pensioning off India's princes. In return, the princes peacefully turned over their 587,888 square miles and 88 million subjects to republican administration. Last week in a white paper, Patel's Ministry of States disclosed the "small price": 56 million rupees (some $2,600,000) a year in "purses" paid out to 283 princes...