Word: livings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happy parts of this press conference is that I learned over the radio this morning what it was about," he said. "That seemed to me to be a triumph of modern journalism . . . I think my function ought to be to live up to the advance report. I understood that you were going to question me about Point Four of the President's address [the spread of U.S. industrial techniques throughout the world] and so . . . I might as well plunge into that...
...left their Russian trucks outside the city, displaying only the U.S. ones which they had captured from Chiang's armies. Picked Nationalist soldiers grimly guarded the Reds' line of march. Beneath pictures of Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung (none of Joseph Stalin), sound trucks blared: "Long live the liberation!" Crowds watched the Reds in silence...
...looked after party discipline. In one year, he executed 4,300 politically unreliable comrades. Meanwhile, conditions on Chingkan Shan were becoming uncomfortable. Food was scarce and the Red army was forced for months to live on squash. The soldiers adopted a slogan: "Down with capitalism and squash-eating!" Chiang Kaishek, by then China's dominant figure, sent his armies against the southern Soviet "republics" and all but finished them in a series of "extermination campaigns." Once, when Mao went to the front to assume personal command, he exclaimed: "Aiya, how daring these bullets are! Don't they know...
...seriously interested in casing the present tension, then they should be given a chance to do so. And certainly such a glimmer exists, at the very least. So let us find out just what Stalin has in mind. Let us launch a peace counter-offensive, and perhaps everybody can live happily ever after in a world torn by peace...
...forget how easily children can develop a sense of rejection by feeling unwanted and unloved, the film ends with this moral: all the clinics and psychiatrists in the nation can only make children "a little better able to take care of themselves ... a little better able to live usefully and generously ... a little better able to care for the children they will have, than their parents were to care for them-lest the generations of those maimed in childhood, each making the next in its own image, create upon the darkness, like mirrors locked face to face, an infinite corridor...