Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dresses performed a writhing twist that onlookers pointed to with a touch of pride as their own "dirty twist." For the monster masked balls that punctuate the season, probably 100,000 costumes will be rented. At some events the men sport tuxedos rented for 120 forints (the average Hungarian earns 1,600 forints a month, or $70 at tourist exchange rates), and the ladies wear old remodeled party dresses...
...when his leadership was challenged, Gaitskell met the test. To the ban-the-bombers, who threatened to take over the party, Gaitskell fumed: "Go tell Mr. Khrushchev to ban his bomb. Go and see what it's like to deal with Soviet tanks and Soviet police like the Hungarian people." Victory over the unilateralists finally made Gaitskell's power absolute, and in the next two years he set out to rally the party behind a unified policy...
Picking out an old Michael Innes, Gridley took the elevator down to Level D, struggled with the vault-like door and issued into the moderate gloom that enshrouds Sections HunL, Oc and Ind (Hungarian Literature, Oceania and Indic Studies). Gridley chuckled sardonically as he walked through the country's largest Hindi collection, musing that Harvard didn't teach the language. Finally he reached his destination, Ang and F. Ang means Angling and F stands for Daniel B. Fearing, a former mayor of Newport who donated, in 1915, several thousand titles having to do with fish and fishing. "What a gold...
...pitiful showing, he reportedly sacked hot-tempered Army Commander General Norbert ("Napoleon") Moké, relied chiefly on a force of 200 or 300 white mercenaries for a possible last-ditch stand. But apparently even the mercenaries left something to be desired. Two whites, a Belgian and a Hungarian-born U.S. Army deserter who were captured by the Indians at the Lufira River, scorned the South Africans and Rhodesians with whom they fought as "big bug-out artists." The Katangese, they said, "ran even before the first shot...
...times, the event has overwhelmed any single man: the Korean G.I. in 1950, and the Hungarian Freedom Fighter in 1956 anonymously represented many. Often the choice of a Man of the Year became an accolade, but not always, and in the years when the likes of Joe Stalin or Hitler was chosen, there were many angry readers who did not grasp our definition: a man or woman who dominated the news that year and left an indelible mark - for good or ill - on history. Khrushchev was allowed to look triumphant the year of the Sputnik (1957), but Hitler...