Word: boundlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such letters, for they are a part of Peking's intensive campaign to woo the refugees back. Invariably they come from the students' families, who may not have written for years. They seldom dwell upon domestic trivialities, but upon the glories of the "New China" and the boundless opportunities to be found there. But the most frightening thing about them is not what they say; it is the fact that they are proof that Peking has discovered who and where the refugees are, and is pressuring relatives to bring about their return...
...Education. Another student who went back to Red China detested what he saw there and escaped to Hong Kong, described the agony in store for any who succumb to Peking's blandishments. "The luxurious American President liner carried home our group of youths full of beautiful dreams and boundless enthusiasm," he wrote. "We sang lustily, 'Arise, those who don't want to be slaves.' " But the lusty group was soon told: "Don't consider yourselves returned students who have drunk foreign waters and therefore are special intellectuals . . . You must realize you underwent a longterm, poisonous...
...came to Madison Square Garden in tough trim-sleepy-eyed Floyd Patterson, at 21 about the most exciting young fighter in the game, and wild-eyed Tommy Jackson, 24, a fistic freak whose boundless energy and impervious head have thwarted most of the best men in the heavyweight division. To prove he was ready for man's estate, young Patterson needed to knock the ears off Jackson...
This book will be read devoutly by the thin cult of aging Americans for whom Henry Miller was the big name in a bohemian pantheon of goofy godlets. For others it has interest as the life record of a literary anarchist of boundless charm and talent but limited good sense, the loosest member of the Lost Generation, who, now 64. has lived these twelve years past as a sage emeritus in an arty enclave at Big Sur, Calif...
Terrorist Lo had to warn his comrades, as recently as last July, against "boundless magnanimity." He regaled the National People's Congress with horror stories of the resisters still around, then dramatically asked: "Deputies, can any one of you be tolerant with these heinous and inhuman counterrevolutionaries? Can any one who has heard of such horrible conspiracies still comfort himself with the feeling that counter-revolutionaries are nothing but 'a few small fish that cannot create waves?' " Back in 1951, when Lo's army of terrorists set to work, the fish were many and the waves...