Word: drews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike Chekhov's Ward 6 in the clas sic of that name, from which Tarsis drew his title and which was an attack on the abysmal physical conditions in Czarist asylums. Ward 7 seemed almost heaven to some of the inmates by comparison with the wretchedness of Russian life outside. "Personally I'm very happy," explained one of them to Almazov: "I'm fed. I'm clothed. Nobody preaches Communism at me. Do you realize? No propaganda, and you can say what you like! Where else can you do that...
...Gaulle's unhappiest ally was undoubtedly Erhard, who has been buffeted for weeks by a series of ill foreign winds. One from the Middle East finally blew itself out last week with the formalization of diplomatic relations between West Germany and Israel-a historic decision that surprisingly drew hardly a squeak from the Arabs. Another has been Erhard's deteriorating relations with Treaty Partner France. But from the Elysée Palace came another balm-a friendly longhand letter from De Gaulle saying he would be glad to move up the date of his next meeting with Erhard...
...answer is, of course, lots of tourists: Austria drew 6,000,000 last year, almost outnumbering the 7,000,000 inhabitants and bringing in $523 million in foreign exchange. The visitors come for the Vienna Staatsoper and the Salzburg Festival, and to ski at resorts like Obergurg, Kitzbuehel, and St. Anton, but above all for the easy informality of Austrian life and the mellow sentimentality of the neighborhood Heurigen (wine festivals). After all, says one Viennese student, "We like eating, drinking, dancing and loving. If that's not the good life, it'll do until something better comes...
...championship by whipping Sam Houston State Teachers, which had won 68 out of its past 75 debates. Greene, who coached the team, recalls: "We arranged so that Lyndon would have the final word. Well, when he got through they didn't have a cockeyed point standing, he just drew that string around their necks so slick." One of the big debate topics that year ('27-'28), was: "Should the U.S. use marines in Nicaragua?" Lyndon, recalls teammate Graham, delighted in arguing the affirmative...
That was probably the most savage criticism The Sound of Music, a generally sunny film starring Julie Andrews, drew from anyone. Mrs. Crist acknowledged the ensuing uproar: "You can be against God; you can be against Conrad; but brother, if you're against The Sound of Music, you're the lowest of the low. If I had beaten my mother to a pulp, strangled my small child, and slit the throat of my little puppy dog, I wouldn't have seemed so odious...