Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Left behind in Moscow, in Leningrad, in the off-limits-to-Westerners industrial centers of Novosibirsk and Sverdlovsk a priceless fund of good will and friendliness toward...
With the bulk of the 17,000 delegates coming from the Soviet bloc-many having their first look outside the Iron Curtain-the festival organizers did their best to make them feel that they had never left home. The Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian and Rumanian delegates were quartered in tent cities five miles from Vienna, closely guarded by other "delegates," and whisked back and forth each day in buses, some of them with Moscow license plates...
Efficiency fell off so badly that in Shensi province, members of four communes assigned to reap grain left nearly 300 tons of wheat to waste in the fields. Inevitably, too. the peasants lost interest in selling their crops; according to the Peking People's Daily, the amount of produce kept by China's peasants for their own use jumped 146% last year...
When Perez came home, the police were waiting. At headquarters, the full, incredible story came out. A bitter, unbalanced man who had lost his left arm in a train accident, Rafael Perez did not believe in God, or doctors, or much of anything else. His first child was named Son of the Sun, and when the baby fell sick with dysentery, Rafael told his wife: "Nature will cure the baby." Son of the Sun died. A year later, Evolution of the World was born-to die soon after for lack of medical attention. When the next child, a girl named...
...hard surface; so when he challenged an audience to put him in cuffs, there was always a convenient piece of metal strapped to his thigh. When he conned Scotland Yard detectives into trying their "darbies" (handcuffs), they locked Houdini's arms around a stone pillar and left him to suffer. The great escapist simply banged the darbies on the pillar and walked...