Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squad of 80 uniformed constables jostled the crowd outside, while inside the hotel scores of bowler-hatted Scotland Yard gumshoes threaded their way among tables crowded by Mayfair society. As B. & K. hustled through the side entrance and up the stairway to the 50-room Russian reservation, there was dead silence. Said a social voice: "Claridge's will never be the same again...
...diplomats at a French embassy party (attended by Mikoyan), the story exploded on the foreign Communist Parties and rebounded in the Soviet Union with atomic force. In Soviet newspapers it was the signal for an intense campaign against "the cult of personality." Ostensibly the campaign was directed against the dead Stalin, and busts of the dictator began falling all over the land. But it was also a warning to Khrushchev. The subsequent acknowledgment of Stalin's anti-Semitism was also a reminder of Khrushchev's work in the Ukraine. As the Central Committee began rehabilitating liquidated Red army...
...word from their husbands, they went to Moranino's headquarters and asked for news. A few nights later, two Moranino partisans called at the hut, told them Moranino wanted to see them. As they were passing the local cemetery, the partisans pulled out revolvers and shot the women dead. They roused the cemetery keeper and ordered him to bury the bodies. The cemetery keeper testified: "The partisans were pleased because snow was falling and it covered the bloodstains...
...reporters thought the blunt refusal was an indication that the Supreme Court felt the "separate but equal" doctrine so dead that no further argument about it was necessary. Actually, Howe and Freund said, the precedent case the Court cited forbids appeals until the lower court has completely disposed of a case...
Schlesinger's course in American intellectual history is now one of the most popular in the College. At the first meeting this year, he stood before an overflow crowd of three hundred and announced with his dead-pan expression--"Let's all petition for a bigger room." Schlesinger delights his packed lecture hall with a unique combination of insights into intellectual trends, ironic descriptions of American religious prophets, and quips about conservatives from Fisher Ames to John Foster Dulles...