Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...block of explanatory text: "This is not the Fidel that the barbudos know. It is not a picture of Fidel as he is physically; it is Fidel as he is seen spiritually by the great portion of the people of Cuba. It is, probably, a fleeting enlightenment captured on paper of that tremendous hope of God when he wanted to make man in his image...
...London meeting Sedov even seemed to enjoy his own doubletalk. When the Russians withdrew an astronomical paper, Sedov admitted to a Russian-speaking colleague that the reason was that British figures proved it erroneous. But when a British reporter asked for corroboration, Sedov offered three other explanations in quick succession : 1) there were too many papers already; 2) it would have been given if the author had been on hand; and 3) there were not enough Russian scientists present to discuss it. He chuckled merrily at each new alibi...
...Glass Tower (Bavaria-Filmkunst; Ellis) is a big, bareboned West Berlin penthouse, where Lilli Palmer perches like a trapped pigeon, caught in the dual grip of a possessive husband and a plot as paper-thin as strudel crust. Her husband (O. E. Hasse), a vain, autocratic man of means, sees Lilli as a beautiful confirmation of his success. Along comes a handsome German-American playwright (Peter Van Eyck), who reminds Lilli of her former glory as a great actress, persuades her to star in his new drama about a nun who gets raped. Her psychiatrist decides that "somewhere in your...
...Blood & Paper. Assisted covertly at first, then openly by imperial troops, the Boxers attacked along the yo-mile line from Peking to Tientsin. They blooded themselves with wholesale massacres of the missionaries in isolated places, and marched on the cities. In Tientsin a young U.S. mining engineer named Herbert Hoover built stout barricades of wool, silk, sacks of peanuts and whatever other merchandise lay at hand, and the foreigners withstood the assault. The real fight was at Peking, the Imperial City...
...single determined assault would have smothered the defenders. The foreigners, mostly British, Russians and Americans, had little ammunition; they did have food (mostly pony meat), champagne from the legation cellars, water, and the certain knowledge that defeat meant death by torture. The grim defense showed the Boxers to be paper tigers. Though the peasants screamed, "Sha, sha [Kill, kill]," they left most of the fighting to the Empress' 6,000-man force of Moslem cavalry. As the siege dragged on. the Boxers posted rewards for dead foreigners-50 taels ($35) for a male. 40 for a female...