Word: himselfe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personal Regards. From the start, partly because of a genuine distaste for meddling with a democratically elected government and partly out of a fear of what the Communists might do in retaliation, Prime Minister Nehru balked at taking action. When Kerala's governor finally sent in a report that...
Worse yet, young Red "agricultural experts" set impossibly high production quotas for the communes, drove man and beast so hard that abnormal numbers of cattle and water buffalo began to die of overwork. As for the peasants, reported Canton's Nan-fang Duily sadly, "quite a few commune members...
He held up a gory picture of a Turcoman woman, demanded: "What right did they have to kill this woman? Is that what the granting of rights to women means?" Almost absently, Kassem continued: "Look at these savage acts. Do they not discredit freedom and democracy? What have you done...
Darbies & Cuffs. On the way to achieving'"this," the dark, sturdy escapist made more than a living. He made himself into an expert swimmer, a master lockpicker, a pioneer aviator, a psychic investigator, and an unfailing expert in the arrogant art of obtaining personal publicity. His greatest illusions and...
So successful were these illusions and escapes that many of Houdini's vast audience actually believed he could communicate with spirits, that he had supernatural powers. But as the movies began to edge vaudeville into the wings, the master escapist earned most of his headlines by proving that anyone...