Word: knouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remained well-bred." Russian to the core, Isabelle was prone to cries and lamentations which she often expressed in admirable prose. She explained: "Why do I prefer nomads to villagers, beggars to rich people? Aie yie yie! for me, unhappiness is a sort of spice ... I love the knout!" To Author Blanch, Isabelle Eberhardt represents the "blessed annihilation of self," the woman "free of all the little deadly fetters of everyday life...
Europe would be cowering-we ourselves would perhaps be cowering-before the knout held by the Kremlin. The architects of our material growth-the men like Whitney, McCormick, Westinghouse, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Hill and Ford-will yet stand forth in their true stature as builders of a strength which civilization found indispensable...
Moscow's long-suffering moviegoers glowed vindictively: the managers of the city's neighborhood moviehouses were at last writhing under the official knout. Five first-string reporters from Evening Moscow made a swooping inspection of the theaters, pronounced them dirty, cold, ill-operated and "on a very low cultural level...