Word: lininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like most novels of its period, The Limit deals with fashionable ladies & gentlemen-mostly too well off to worry about having nothing to do. Among them: #&182; Miss Luscombe, a woolly-headed, stage-struck creature who nonetheless has an eye for hard cash. "She lives in the clouds, but she...
It was a strange, sealed-off world that young Stalin saw within the Kremlin's cold walls. As his father ruthlessly hacked his way upwards, Vasily found himself more & more isolated from other children. His companions were the stern-faced NKVD sentries lining the Kremlin corridors ; his teachers, special...
The Communists looked for a reliable assassin, picked one Trinh Van Minh, 25, a fanatical member of IndoChina's noisy, party-lining Patriotic Youth Society. Trinh Van Minh was in jail on charges of being a Viet Minh terrorist, but the Patriotic Youth Society put pressure on the Viet...
"I'm a Boxer." Despite his unquestioned ability and the success of his European tour, Ray Robinson is neither the world's richest fighter nor its most popular. For one thing, even at a time when such a club-fighting brawler as Rocky Graziano was drawing $100,000...
While the wine loosens the tongues of the assembled scholars and guests at the Monday evening affairs, the overstuffed chairs and special food also contribute to the interchange of ideas. An old-world aura pervades the Society's two downstairs rooms with their oil portraits and busts lining the walls...