Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inventions about the relations between the Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic. In this he even surpassed the well-known compiler of lies, Baron Munchausen." Without explicitly denying Humphrey's report that Khrushchev had described China's communes as "reactionary," Khrushchev said: "The idea that I could have been in any way confidential with a man who himself boasts of his 20-year struggle against Communism can only serve to raise a laugh...
Apra too has caught the idea. Once it called for revolution, but Boss Prialé now says: "That's not the way. A power plant, that's the real revolution. It means factories and payrolls. It gives the people light. It changes their lives. Everybody can work together on that-Apra, government, business, American capital...
...Ugly American, bestselling plea for a better U.S. Foreign Service (TIME, Oct. 6), the authors virtually ask that Washington send abroad platoons of everyday saints, preferably with engineering degrees. The idea was eagerly echoed and extended last week by a conference that in effect urged all American Christians abroad to act as missionaries...
...youngsters described by young (28) Spanish Author Goytisolo have got their kicks from booze, sex and seedy night life. But when Ana, the lone girl in the gang and the only one with a working-class background, suggests the murder of a wealthy politician, they seize on the idea as a chance to prove to each other what they are made...
...idea that even Maverick's satiric creators might envy: Danny Thomas, as an immigrant tailor in the Old West, stands the taunts of the town nasties as long as he can and then swaps his pressin' iron for the shootin' kind...