Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said which is more provocative than that." More solemnly, Bevan continued: "We are really trying to decide how to solve a problem which, if it is not solved, will continue to bleed us for generations." And then, in a peroration that was only a sad echo of the old Nye, Bevan concluded: "This is the worst Parliament I have been in. Some Parliaments have been called 'Long Parliaments.' Some have been called 'Rump Parliaments.' But this will be known by history as the squalid...
...Peking's New China SemiMonthly was the fact that the Chinese word it used for "greatness" is one the Reds usually reserve for Mao Tse-tung. With customary bafflegab. Peking was publicly admitting that Chairman Mao has been forced into a humiliating retreat by the stubbornness of "The Old Hundred Names"-Red China's faceless peasant masses...
...bosses joyfully proclaimed that the Marxist millennium was at hand. "We were told," said one refugee who made it to freedom in Hong Kong. "that once the commune got under way it would provide free meals for all. pay wages to all, take care of young and old and bring to the people many other blessings." But within weeks the food stocks that the government had hoarded in order to get the communes off to a good start began torun out-and the peasants' disillusionment began...
...last week was a special occasion. As the President's motorcade started up the steep final hill to his mountaintop palace, Moghabghab's car, just behind it, rounded the bend. Among the hundreds of Druses lining the road, shouting and cheering, someone recognized their old enemy. Within seconds, Moghabghab's car was surrounded. His driver leaped out, ran off to attract the attention of General Adel Chehab, commander in chief of the army, who was just a few yards ahead. As Moghabghab sat helpless in the car, four shots, muffled by the wild shrieks of the crowd...
...remnants that live on in TV variety shows-animal acts, jugglers, monologu-ists-are dogged reminders that vaudeville is as dead as the day before yesterday. The old troupers are legend now, larger than life in sentimental memories. But the best of them never needed such exaggeration. Carnival Buff William (Nightmare Alley) Gresham's biography, Houdini, The Man Who Walked Through Walls (Holt; $4.50), serves its subject well, simply by telling the story straight. "As the archetype of the hero who could not be fettered or confined," writes Biographer Gresham, "he became the idol of a million boys...