Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as the odor of political assassination was beginning to fade from the Soviet scene-to be replaced by that subtler perfume called peaceful coexistence-the Soviet government last week reminded the world that murder is still very much a part of Kremlin politics. The government deliberately chose the anniversary of former Police Boss Lavrenty Beria's execution as "an imperialist agent" to announce the shooting of Viktor Abakumov and three other Beria associates...
...abroad, but the percentages and other such details would be worked out later "by common agreement." Frenchmen themselves could only move in and out of the country "within the framework" of Ho's Communist laws. Sainteny apparently thought that the deal would guarantee security to French businessmen who chose to stay in Hanoi, but the businessmen were not so naive. Few rose to the bait...
Trouble at Four. Born into a cultivated music-teacher's family near Bern, Switzerland, Klee thought of making music his profession. He chose painting instead, simply "because it seemed to be lagging behind," and undertook rigorous formal training. Klee's chief means of advancing art was to let his unconscious whisper through his brush. At four, he would rush to his mother for protection from the "evil spirits" that appeared on his drawing paper. With age, he came to feel at home in his dream world of huge, dim forces, and was able to say, with none...
...Before he was old enough to vote, he was renting indoor space, putting stands in lobbies and aboard ferryboats, hiring other bootblacks. Dissatisfied with existing shoe polish, he hired a chemist to develop a new formula, and made his own-first for his stands and then for sale. He chose his trademark carefully. "I got the name out of a book," said Aste proudly. "A griffin is half-lion and half-eagle-king of the beasts and the birds...
...less lonesome went to Radcliffe." Two years later, Josephine Sherwood (The Solid Gold Cadillac) Hull followed; then came Helen Keller, '04, Novelists Rachel Field, '18, and Helen Howe, '27, and a host of scholars and scientists. But to all these brilliant entrances and exits, Harvard itself chose to pretend indifference...