Word: factly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rity. Passive resistance continues among the peasants - apparently with some connivance on the part of the army. There are complaints from revolutionary committees, which are now the governing bodies in China, that lower-ranking of ficers at district and county levels are not following orders, are in fact making their own decisions-presumably because they are siding with the peasants The most specific complaints have come from Kweichow province where the provincial revolutionary committee has hac to remind local commanders that the relationship between them was "that between the leaders and the led," thai orders must be "executed...
...claimed that the ideal marrying age was 37 for the man, 18 for the woman. As he saw it, both would thus reach the end of their sexual decline at roughly the same time, when he was 70 and she was 50. But what do philosophers know anyway? In fact, a woman's sexual desire may continue for years after menopause. In men, the desire may thrive until an extraordinary age. In 1583, an Englishman named Thomas Parr was found guilty of committing adultery at the age of 100 and did penance, according to the custom of the time...
...fact, such marriages often seem to work almost precisely because of the age differences. Eighty-seven-year-old Pablo Picasso's evident contentment with his wife Jacqueline, 43, might have been impossible in his younger years. If Charlie Chaplin had married Oona O'Neill when he was 30 or 35, it probably would not have lasted a year. Instead, he married her in 1943 at a mellower 54, when she was 18, and the marriage, with eight children, has been prolific and apparently serene. "My security and stability with Charlie," Oona has said, "stem from the difference...
...three-time Princeton All-America once said that the emphasis on shooting in the pros was "overdone." Brad ley is now gunning from all angles, has scored 20-plus points in four of the last seven games. Even so, the fact that not a single Knick is among the top-ten scorers in the league attests to Bradley's philosophy of the intangible...
Changing the Style. While some rival players scoffed at the "silly sticks," the fact that Mikita and Hull developed into the most potent one-two scoring combination in hockey induced many other pros to experiment with the new blades. Now more than half of the players in the National Hockey League are using the bowed blades, ranging from the slight bend favored by the Detroit Red Wings' Gordie Howe to the severe 1½-in. hook of Mikita's "banana stick." The innovation, comparable to the introduction of fiber-glass poles in pole vaulting or metal rackets...