Word: lilliputians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most astonishing facts to be found in China today are not in the realms of war or politics but in finance. Chinese Government expenditures, when translated into U.S. dollars at the prevailing rate of exchange, are on a Lilliputian scale. To govern the 450 million Chinese in a territory one-third larger than the U.S. and to carry all the expenses of the war, the Chinese Government now spends approximately the same sum annually as the municipal government of New York City...
...women of Lilliput stood a good six inches in their stocking feet. Mounted on speedy rats and armored in the wing cases of beetles, they hunted mice and moles, and caught fish with horsehair. They wrote unsentimental Lilliputian love poems, such...
...book's charm lies in Author White's nostalgic evocation of 18th Century life, his knowledge of animal and country lore (in private life he is an ardent naturalist), and his ability to make genuinely dramatic such absurdities as the thrilling rescue of Maria by the Lilliputian rat-cavalry. The best things in Mistress Masham's Repose are the mischievous parodies of human clichés-of-thought-as when Captain, a dog, muses on the virtues of his owner, the cook...
...rogue elephant. As the House Military Affairs Committee reported the bill out last week, it was a foregone conclusion that it would not pass in its present form. At the same time the Congress-which had been squinting at atomic power almost as confidently as at those Lilliputian mavericks, the budget and the tariff-suddenly admitted to itself that it did not know what to try next. The monster seemed to be getting bigger, more red-eyed and more terrifying with every passing...
...Mouse. The grandiose works were concerned with the bigness-and the grossness-of man. A different, delicately hilarious Dore talent found expression in his cartoon history of Holy Russia with its Lilliputian kings and knights...