Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...material nor political conditions for it-I mean the consciousness of the peasant masses-then existed. A situation arose in which everyone wanted to live well but to contribute a minimum of labor to the common cause." China, in other words, would soon learn, as Russia did, that communes offer too much scope for goldbricking...
Fifteen years ago last week. Soviet armies were pressing into Poland, the Western Allies were about to break through at St.-Lô, and no one around the heavy oak table at the Fuhrer's headquarters in Rastenburg, East Prussia, was able to offer much encouragement. "Do you know where the Russian Panzer armies are?" demanded Hitler, and got no answer. "Again no information from aerial reconnaissance . . .?" As the dreary conference droned on that sweltering July 20, 1944, a trim, distinguished colonel named Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg strolled into the room and, after being greeted by Hitler, casually...
...home. Perhaps his most dramatic operation concerns Tel Aviv's long-embattled public swimming pool, which the Hasidim consider an outrage because it permits mixed bathing. Teitelbaum and his backers are trying to buy the pool from the two collectives that own it, are reported ready to offer $140,000. If the offer is turned down, Teitelbaum will order mass demonstrations by his followers. Says one of his spokesmen: "The deportment of men and women in this sinful place will bring his wrath upon the city and the Holy Land...
Judge Eyman retorted that he had not forced Korpa to do anything: "There was no obligation on the young man to accept the grace and clemency which I offered him. If he had not accepted the probation terms, he would have gone to jail. However, in accepting the offer of the court, he undertook to comply with the requirement to regularly attend his church. In my opinion, this was a reasonable requirement . . . I'm not a Catholic, but I would do this whether the boy was a Hindu, a Methodist or a Mormon...
...cancer reports-cigarette sales are running 5% ahead of 1958-U.S. cigarette companies have taken off on a scramble to grab a bigger share of the $4¼ billion-a-year cigarette market. Each hopes to turn the trick by outdoing its competitors with new cigarettes that offer the U.S. smoker everything from rum flavor to air-conditioned paper...