Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But fervor was not enough. Wheat had been so closely planted that it toppled over or died of contagious rust. Newly dug potatoes rotted in the fields while peasants were rushed off to erect dams. Jerry-built mines collapsed, and backyard iron proved worthless for industrial use. In the cities...
But another purge in Peking was scarcely enough to take the peasants' minds off their woes. For that purpose, Mao & Co. raised the cry that "foreign imperialists" were threatening peace-loving China. It was a hoary gambit, especially for Peking. In 1950 the Communists had helped consolidate their initial...
At polling places in 630 parliamentary constituencies throughout the British Isles this week, 34 million voters will decide whether to give Britain's Conservative Party an unprecedented third straight general election triumph. Upon their choice will turn the management of Britain's foreign policy, economy and continuing social...
Off with your Taxes. In his new aggressiveness, Macmillan early in the week fired off a taunt that overnight came to dominate the political infighting. Reeling off the list of Gaitskell's promises (retirement at half pay for all, more schools, hospitals, housing), Macmillan asked: "How can you pay...
Only 16 months ago, Britain was rocked by a Sunday Pictorial story that began with the words, "I, Donald Hume, do here by confess . . ." The lurid confession was that Hume had hacked to pieces a car dealer named Stanley Setty -a murder that in two separate trials the Crown had...