Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remained calm. U.S. Correspondent A. T. Steele, visiting his retreat at Sevagram last week, described it as "a dude ranch, a Father Divine 'heaven,' a Mennonite colony, a collective farm and an agricultural station, with everybody a vegetarian." There Mohandas K. Gandhi relaxed, listened to his inner voice, took abdominal mudbaths to husband his waning strength...
...Anglo-Irish gentry, as exemplified in ten generations of Bowens; 2) the story of Novelist Bowen's passionate attachment to Bowen's Court, the square, empty, echoing 18th-Century family mansion which "like Flaubert's ideal book about nothing . . . sustains itself on itself by the inner force of its style"; 3) a bloodstained tapestry of Irish history, from Cromwell's terror to the Trouble...
...Purity League" and attempting to sabotage the love life of their more fortunate and more beautiful sisters of the "dirty thirty." The purity leaguers were the object of the withering scorn of the 30 who lampooned and lambasted them in verse and song. Under the leadership of a glamorous inner circle, euphoniously known as "the filthy few," they advertised the causes of the puritanical attitude in parodies like the following, which was sung to the tune of "Caesar Was a Roman...
...Urals are the chief seat of Soviet Asia's industrial power, "the inner bastion of Russian defense." The Magnitogorsk Steel Mill, which since 1936 has produced the cheapest pig iron in Russia, supports a mushroom metropolis of 200,000. The Cheliabinsk Tractor Plant, the world's biggest, now turns out tanks and armored cars. Twenty years ago Ekaterinburg, where the last Tsar and his family were shot in a cellar, was a city of 25,000. Now renamed Sverdlovsk, it is the junction of seven railroad lines, has a population...
Left-wing view is that, while the Government has made some concessions to radical thought, it keeps control in the hands of men it can trust. Increasingly such trust has been centered in a Churchillian inner group ("The Club"), of which Captain Lyttelton is a representative member...