Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Cussed & Discussed." Nixon used much the same polished, effective script in his approaches to all the state delegations. The Republicans, said he have "something better to offer than smear and vilification. We have the record of the Eisenhower Administration." (Cheers.) The Democratic nominees are "dedicated men-they are probably the...
Dulles: "Unquestionably the greatest unguided missile in the history of American diplomacy" (Clement); "Daredevil John Foster Dulles−world-famous escape artist with his breathtaking, death-defying brink-of-war act" (Kerr).
What if the West should apply economic sanctions? "We would try by all our means to escape. You know we are a patient country. What would the effect be upon world conscience? This would be an action against the sovereignty and independence of all countries. The West would lose ground...
A Japanese novel is rather like a Japanese flower arrangement. It is subtle, delicate and personal, and it invariably fades a little in the vase of translation. The Sound of Waves does not wholly escape this fate, but its 31-year-old author, Yukio Mishima, is a spare-time weight...
Pritchett criticism resembles an elaborately woven square of cloth which, held up at one end, hangs together all of a piece. The Pritchett short story is just the opposite. It exists (as modern life does, in Pritchett's view) "in fragments rather than as solid mass," and exults in...