Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev went on: "Since Stalin could behave in this manner during Lenin's life ... we can easily imagine how Stalin treated other people. These negative characteristics of his developed steadily and during the last years acquired an absolutely insufferable character...
...possible that a person confesses to crimes which he has not committed? Only in one way-because of the application of physical methods of pressuring him, tortures, bringing him to a state of unconsciousness, deprivation of his judgment, taking away of his human dignity. In this manner 'confessions' were acquired...
...telephoned to Stalin at his villa . . . but Stalin did not consider it convenient to raise the phone and stated that I should speak to him through Malenkov [then Stalin's secretary], although he was only a few steps from the telephone. After 'listening' in this manner to our plea, Stalin said, 'Let everything remain as it is!' And what was the result of this? The Germans surrounded our army concentrations and consequently we lost hundreds of thousands of our soldiers. This is Stalin's military 'genius'; this is what it costs...
...most unspectacular and yet the most sensational news-happening of our times," fumed syndicated Columnist David Lawrence last week, "is the manner in which the forty-eight state governments are being deprived of their rights by the Supreme Court of the United States." Lawrence, along with states' righters already hot under the collar about court rulings that have struck down segregation and state antisedition laws (TIME, April 16), was angered by the court's latest decision: that railroad unions can en force union-shop agreements even in states where the union shop is forbidden by "right-to-work...
...Tiger, tiger, tiger, sis-boom-bah!" Then, starting out in Tokyo (where they lunched with onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. Eikichi Araki, a Princeton graduate school student in 1923), the visitors set out to see Japan. Amidst a profusion of potent Japanese beer, sake, bourbon, Scotch and all manner of native dishes, they saw Fujiyama mantled in unseasonable snow, famed shrines and spas, one geisha dance so laden with obscure symbolism that Host Osawa told his mystified buddies: "If you can understand either it or the program notes, you're a better Japanese than...