Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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YOU TEACH us to be honest, but what we see around us is a world afraid of the truth--a culture characterized by hypocrisy, evasion, distortion, and outright lies. We have long since grown accustomed to such dishonesty from the mass media and from the elected officials who rule our...
Unprecedented Defiance. Russia's Czechoslovak invasion may, in fact, prove to be a watershed in the development of Communism that could surpass in importance the breakaways of Yugoslavia and China from what was a monolithic world organization at the close of World War II. In an unprecedented show of...
Even this grisly story is lightened by comic touches. Charley's family gathers gloomily around the radio and hears Gabriel Heatter, the doom-laden commentator, warn "of dreaded pyorrhea." On another occasion, Charley, in adolescent bravado, adds "the suicide caper to his repertoire of small talk, using it to...
Imperial Russian counts have never carried much clout in the Soviet Union. But Count Leo Tolstoy is somebody special. Last week marked the 140th birth day of the great author, whose deep sympathy for the restive peasants of his day has earned him the approval of the Kremlin. To honor...
All summer long, the word has been out: the target for September is Portugal, the occasion the twin parties to be given by Franco-American Oil Millionaire Pierre Schlumberger and Bolivian Tin King Antenor Patiño. The Schlumbergers began getting ready for their bash four years ago, when they...