Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even as Stenia spoke, the crack of gunfire could be heard on the bridge. It attracted little attention; political murder was almost a commonplace in Poland. A complex, undeclared, ideological civil war was raging under the shadow of the Red Army's continuing occupation of the country it had liberated. Seven of prewar Poland's 35 millions had died in World War II; life had become so cheap that the struggle for Poland could scarcely be confined to the ballot...
...concerned. Previous references to Iran which have appeared in both TIME and LIFE have contained erroneous and unfriendly statements. Such errors are largely the product of ignorance and credulity. Our reporters in the Near East are often shockingly innocent of the background, are generally quite baffled by the complex social and political factors they are called on to describe and appraise; fatigued, confused, prejudiced often by inconveniences, they become the easy victims of cynical and disillusioned residents, exiled for good or bad reasons from their own country nursing personal grievances and frequently, for commercial or political purposes, anxious to inflame...
...from her bastard son, who was dying of consumption. Sometimes Lillian could hear Red, Lem, Butch and Shorty Clapp exchanging local gossip. Others whom Lillian wondered about include: Lawyer Pettigrew, an ambitious politician who had seduced pretty Meg Taylor in the underbrush; Schoolmarm Fisher, who had a lurid mother complex; Rufe Albright, who frolicked in the barn with fat Fanny Rhimer; and precocious young Gregory Beamer, who persuaded Lillian's adolescent sister to bathe in the buff with...
...planning Russians, who have already drawn big blueprints for everything from history to human lives, now plan to raise the water level of an ancient sea and make a few northbound rivers flow south. The staggeringly complex plan is called the Greater Volga Project. G.V.P., a technically audacious scheme, was laid aside in 1939 and is now being dusted off and revised by a special commission of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Through a series of dams, canals and reservoirs, G.V.P. would provide an all-water route from Archangel to Batum. Involving cities, towns and villages where 50 million Russians...
...first, Francesca (Ann Todd), a beautiful pianist whose fairly simple liking of men and pianos has led her into a complex state of emotional bewilderment, won't tell her doctors what ails her. It takes narcosis, hypnosis and a few bars of musical therapy to snatch the last veil of reserve from her tortured mind. As soon as the doctor's shot in the arm and soft talk begin to take effect, Francesca begins to remember a happy childhood followed by years of frustration. Her schoolmistress beats her across the knuckles; her bad-tempered but handsome guardian (James...