Word: giving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...popular reaction - a wholesale purge. When the 180 members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party assembled last week in the ornate baroque Spanish Hall overlooking Prague, the whole country knew that their first order of business was to pronounce sentence against the men who had sought to give Czechoslovak Communism a human face. The only question was how se vere the sentences would...
...remain defensive for some time-provided the feud with the Soviets does not get out of hand. The dispute between the two nations is at an extremely sensitive juncture. For roughly three months, the Soviets have been exerting strenuous efforts to draw China into negotiations on border problems; to give their attempts muscle, they seem to be implying that unless the Chinese agree to a resumption of talks, Moscow might settle the issue by force, perhaps by a preemptive strike against China's nuclear installations...
...opens in Because with a childlike vista of the world, intoned by the group in their best breathy choirboy manner, and filled with an image of wind and blue sky that "makes me cry." Then come first ineffectual gropings of love followed by loneliness and frustration (You Never Give Me Your Money). In The End, a final note of acceptance of life's burdens is sealed with an affirmation: "The love you take is equal to the love you make." To avoid too much of an amen quality, the side concludes with a brief snoot-cocking ditty by Paul...
...famous refusal to recant-"to go against conscience is neither right nor safe"-as well as the defiance of Nazism by Germany's Confessing Church. Some examples of heroism are poignant: Quaker John Woolman, dying of smallpox, told his friends to "rejoice evermore, and in everything give thanks." Then he added, "This is sometimes hard to come...
...body bolted to the frame for a quieter ride. Several cars have more powerful engines; the biggest of all is the Cadillac Eldorado's, at 500 cu. in. The Plymouth Barracuda is one of the few cars that have had enough sheet-metal changes to give the body a new look. The game of hide-and-seek has taken a new turn. Disappearing headlights have been dropped on all G.M. cars except the Corvette, but hidden windshield wipers have been made standard on nearly all cars...