Word: camped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...questioning frame of mind. Much of the debate gathered around a bestselling novel. Vladimir Dudintsev's Not By Bread Alone, the story of a brilliant young inventor who is victimized by a group of corrupt bureaucrats (standard villains of Soviet fiction) and is sent to a prison camp. Since its publication last August, Not By Bread Alone has been eagerly seized upon by millions of young Russians who find, beneath the technical jargon which covers many of its pages, a hidden symbolism, a new message, best expressed in the words of its hero Dmitry Lopatkin, back from the slave...
...long-sought hideout of the Ampang gang, a Communist military unit which once spread terror and death through Kuala Lumpur. In a brief fight three terrorists were killed. "It's shockin'," said a bald-headed British major. "I might have sliced one into the beggars' camp...
...these people for something which is going to change the whole pattern of their lives." The company flew in a squad of public-relations men from the West Coast, sent them on a seven-week tour of hillside hamlets with names like Pee Wee, Rocky Knob, Gay Given, Frozen Camp. At each stop Kaiser's emissaries showed three movies (a cartoon, a western, a film on Kaiser Aluminum), served soft drinks and cake (bought at $2 apiece from local house wives), and patiently outlined what the company was up to. As a result, Kaiser got 2.000 job applications the first...
Chinese Lunch. The chilled cobalt experiment proved extremely difficult, but by last fortnight Dr. Wu reported her results. The electrons were not shooting off equally in both directions. This looked bad for parity, and spirits rose high in the anti-parity camp...
...Queen Mary and great-uncle of Queen Elizabeth II; in Kensington Palace, London. An erect, mustached ex-cavalryman (India, the Boer War, World War I) who looked and acted like the prototype of Britain's foxhunting, elephant-shooting old regimentals, the Earl of Athlone served as aide-de-camp to King George V, King Edward VIII, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, officiated at countless cornerstone-layings and ribbon-cuttings, became known as the royal family's most affable handyman...