Word: blots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hungarian revolt demonstrated communism's "fatal defect"--an inability to blot out man's yearning for freedom even under dictatorship. This will lead to "the undoing" of communism "in a decade or more," perhaps sooner...
...first and third day, the doctors gave the students a modified Rorschach (ink blot) test designed to spot psychotic symptoms. All passed. Early on the third day they also gave a complex, 45-minute comprehension test. Although by this time all the students had had illusions and "waking dreams," were glassy-eyed with fatigue, they collected their addled senses well enough to solve the test problems...
Line of Martyrs. His partisans have often called Casement's sentence and execution a "judicial assassination,'' yet there is a dark blot on his martyr's shroud-the Black Diaries, "200 pages of concentrated erotica," found in his lodgings. If authentic, the diaries proved Casement probably the most industrious sodomite since the days of Heliogabalus. According to Casement's supporters, the diaries were forged, possibly by the British, to destroy Casement's image as a patriot-martyr. The diaries were clearly in his handwriting; Casement's defenders contend implausibly that they were...
...material has its relatively weak moments, the performer his slightly too showy ones; but the good things blot them out. For Williams can make a small event of a mere phrase like "She held her head as though it might spill." He can make a larger one of Thomas' imagining how his old schoolmaster might remember...
...time of Herodotus (circa 484-425 B.C.) and was still accurate in A.D. 1926, when Persia's modern-minded Reza Shah Pahlavi began his reign, set about freeing the women of their veils, ordered the men into Western suits and decided that nomadic existence was "a blot on his progressive country." Harried by the Shah's troops, the nomadic tribes "settled," but in 1941, when Reza was forced to abdicate after the Allies moved into Persia, the tribes went back to their ancient way of life. They stuck to it until a few years ago, when British Author...