Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rather Die Young (Gisele MacKenzie; Capitol). A hillbilly tear-jerker which darkly affirms the futility of life without love. MacKenzie, in her clear, bold voice, makes a good case for her side. A candidate for success with beer-parlor jukeboxes and losing lovers...
...living room of a Formosan cottage, incense from a burning joss stick rose fragrantly before an image of Buddha. Opposite, in a wicker chair flanked by two bold parrots, sat one of the most talked about and least known generals in the null century Orient. His long, hard body was encased in the folds of a grey Chinese gown and he jogged on one knee his five-year...
Most of Li's men live in mud and straw huts, raise rice and vegetables on tiny hillside farms. Some have settled down with Burmese girls but most still yearn for their families in Yunnan, and some secretly visit their kinfolk from time to time. A bold attempt last year to move large numbers of their dependents from Red Yunnan ended in bloody failure: the Communists seized 800 oldsters and children, and none has been heard of since...
...speak, and in the visitors' gallery a phalanx of 21 ambassadors waited expectantly. Sir Winston explained that he was filling in for his ailing Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who will be away from his desk "for several months" after two gall bladder operations. But his speech was bold Churchillian, not cautious Foreign Office. "My knowledge, such as it is," said the 78-year-old Prime Minister, "is not mainly derived from books or documents about foreign affairs, but through having lived through them for a long time...
...However, a few neighborhood gossips are whispering over their back fences that the wedding date has already been set. But those who know the least always talk the most. One would-be suitor* has made bold to announce that a chair is being reserved for us ... No doubt this suitor means well in thinking of that chair as a love seat. But this young lady realizes that for her it would become a 'hot seat' .. . virtually an electric chair...