Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lunar year-the Year of the Pig. To Chinese, the pig is a symbol of prosperity. Given last year's vaunted "great leap forward" in the Year of the Dog in the production of everything from steel to sesame seeds, and given all their own hard work, mainland China's hard-pressed masses had every reason to expect to be eating higher on the hog. Instead, they are living through some of the hardest times since Mao Tse-tung took power in Peking...
...over finances. He scheduled no balls, no parades, no mass banquets. Instead the delegates:-including U.S. Chief Delegate Thomas E. Dewey -will be treated to a drink or two at a pair of official receptions, an evening of symphony at the municipal theater, and the welcome sight of a hard-working friend of the U.S. taking over oil-rich Venezuela...
Beth Jacobs intends to keep trying, but she admits the job is hard. "Even unwed mothers," she sighs, "left to face their ordeal alone, would rather have had their fling and pay the price than be good spinsters with no love life...
...Russia last year in the party with Adlai Stevenson, an old family friend, considers herself "a Stevensonian Democrat," but adds: "My political views are probably pretty immature." Certain that she wants to go into the newspaper business but uncertain whether she will settle in Newsday territory ("It's hard to pick out a man that lives on Long Island"), Alice knows what kind of paper she would like to run: "The New York Times with guts...
Stocky, dynamic Martin Gabel is every half-inch "the Little Giant." His voice is a minefield of riches-the silver of persuasion, the gold of assurance, the hard diamond of logic, and sometimes the brass of sheer arrogance. Tall, gangling TV Star (Medic; Have Gun, Will Travel) Richard Boone brings to his Lincoln the homely gravity of the Mathew Brady photographs. His drawling voice begins like a modest rivulet picking its way over pebbles of country wit and wisdom, then swiftens into a stream of social inquiry and protest, and finally cascades in a thundering waterfall of conscience aroused...