Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three Bags Full." Warming to his denunciations, Khrushchev turned on his recent guest, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey. "In the expectation of a noisy sensation, Humphrey, in his speeches and articles, told fairy tales, three bags full, such as the story that he had brought a special message from the Soviet government to President Eisenhower-of course no such message existed at all-and that I had imparted two important secrets...
...stories collected in this book by Anthologist Kapp cover the years from 1934 to 1956, and many of them, particularly those written after Stalin's death, reflect an impatience with Communist society that is apt to surprise U.S. readers. In Yury Nagibin's The Night Guest, a feckless sponger is held in contempt by two zealous Soviet citizens, but not before one of them reflects sadly on the ''warmth and gaiety" that the wastrel brings into people's lives. Loaf Sugar, by Konstantin Paustovsky, features an overbearing Soviet Organization Man whose mere presence "filled...
...Last Word (CBS, 3-3:30 p.m.). William Saroyan, who wallows in language like a dieter in a delicatessen, is this week's guest etymologist...
...rich wayfarer stays the night at the cottage of poor folk somewhere in rural Europe. The greedy farmer and his wife kill their guest, rob him-and find papers identifying him as their long-lost...
...divorced) Broadway musicomedienne of the '20s and. '30s (Artists and Models, Life Begins at 8:40), who dazzled crowds with her throaty versions of civilized blues (her trademark: a wisp of chiffon tied to one finger), retired after a sporadic later career of road shows and TV guest shots; of cancer; in Manhattan...