Word: lent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sleep, tirelessly writing reprimands to his partners, agents and factors throughout Europe, begging them to act prudently, to "trust no man." Always, just as today, the last straw came in the form of taxation: "I shall see torn from me in my old age all that God has lent me . . . I have reached such a point that methinks, if a man stabbed me, no blood would issue forth...
...concentrate on producing more pigs, say two per citizen, the expression "passing a pig" would mean doing a good deed, instead of a bad one. In the next breath Khrushchev passed Soviet citizenry its biggest pig in many a year: he declared a moratorium on 260 billion rubles ($65billion) lent to the state by workers...
...institution of Lent is nothing but a capitalist plot to glorify the starvation of the workers, Pravda told its readers last week. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. were urged to avoid the sinister practice of fasting for the 40 days before Easter-"especially damaging because it coincides with the time of spring sowing, and it decreases sharply the labor productivity of the collective farmers...
...related danger: the practice of confession, which turns the church in capitalist countries into a smoothly working espionage organization against the "revolutionary feelings of the people." No one knows how many Russian backsliders are observing Lent, but Pravda deplored the fact that "a considerable number of believers in the Soviet Union still observe the cult of confession...
...prosecute Confidential for criminal libel and distribution of lewd material. There was good reason to doubt that the klieg-lit legislators would effectively police bedroom journalism, or indeed should. In fact, by emphasizing the zeal with which the leer-and-smear brigade sifts its dirt, the senate hearings lent some support to the smut-peddlers' argument that scurrility can be justified if it is accurate. Nevertheless, few responsible editors could agree with Publisher Harrison that "the truth never smears anybody." The issue that was largely ignored last week is whether truth a la Confidential is defensible in terms...