Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faubus' speech was mostly about the Bill of Rights and how the citizens of Arkansas have been deprived of benefits of same ("It seems that sometimes, in the name of freedom, we are about to destroy certain of our freedoms"). Not until nearly the end was there much excitement: then, when Faubus proclaimed that "one of my grandfathers, about five times removed" had fought under Washington in the American Revolution, a sardonic voice cried out: "Hooray for your grandfather...
...farther from the sun in wider and wider orbits. Eventually it will reach the orbits of Mars or the outer planets and can take a look at them. A fragile space sailer could not land on any planet; even a brush with the fringe of an atmosphere would destroy the sail. But it could be maneuvered to approach smaller bodies in space that have no atmosphere...
...villains we know. The scabs who would just as soon spit in Mrs. Bella H.'s dimming eyes as destroy this nation's chance for harmony and well-being are the fat men in blue serge suits who don't know the first principle of economics. If you spend more than you've got in the bank, poverty and God knows what else results...
...minute program for radio; he wrote a signed article for Izvestia on the U.S. desire for peace, interlarding it with statistics calculated to show the contrast between U.S. and Russian life ("three quarters of our families own their own homes and their own automobiles, which war would all destroy"). And one afternoon, checking in with the Soviet Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Nations, he was told: "No need to take off your coat." Why not? The reply: "You are to be received by the First Minister at the Kremlin." It was then 2:30. By 3 o'clock...
During the journey, Zhivago meets Lara's husband Antipov, now called Strelnikov, "The Shooter." His task is to destroy recalcitrant peasant villages for the Bolsheviks in the civil war that has broken out between the Whites and Reds. Emphasizing yet again Zhivago's inner quest for the truth of his own being, Pasternak settles the doctor in a town that is his symbolic namesake, Yuriatin. Inevitably, Lara is there; and despite his remorse, Yurii is once more unfaithful to his wife. On a horseback ride back from Lara's. Physician Zhivago is kidnaped by a band...