Word: mustn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Shakespeare, What? Katherine Mansfield may have been stewing in consumption; she was also simmering with genius. Her own severest critic, she insisted that when a story "really comes off... there mustn't be one single word out of place or one word that could be taken out." She took her characters just as hard: "I've stood for hours on the Auckland Wharf. I've been out in the stream waiting to be berthed-I've been a seagull hovering at the stern and a hotel porter whistling through his teeth." In a handful...
...Mustn't Forget." From reports by foreign diplomats and Chinese refugees, from statements by Red deserters and prisoners of war in Korea, and, above all, from the insistent testimony of the Red press and radio, one fact was clear: Red China's masters are not only waging war against the U.S. in Korea; they are waging a relentless war on their own people. So far, the Korean war has cost China an estimated 500,000 casualties (including wounded); the Red bosses' terror has cost China's people three times that much...
...mild and affable in manner that many a Westerner who knew him in the past had suspected him of only playing at Communism. He is a professional political organizer named Chou Enlai. Once he had found it necessary to remind one of his American admirers: "You mustn't forget, you know, that I am a Communist...
...first time our national flag waving in the distance. I suddenly burst into tears, as soon as I crossed the border I felt like flinging myself down on the railroad track and just lying there. I was in a pitiful state all that day. I felt I must laugh, mustn't let people see me-almost a grown man crying like a child. But the more the Liberation army men sang and performed for us, the more the tears came. Loud-speakers began playing the "International" and then a Chinese song: "East is Becoming Red, the Sun is Rising...
...Scelba reached Modena, he got out of his car to look carefully at a poster. Under the caption "Scelba is in Emilia. He mustn't get out!" a cartoon showed a mouse with Scelba's face caught in a trap. Grimly Scelba climbed back into his car and drove on-still further into the trap...