Word: ple
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stettin is an overcrowded, underemployed port on the Baltic Sea whose lusty waterfront population takes its politics with violence and vodka. Last week a cou ple of cops who tried to arrest a slaphappy vodka drinker touched off a political riot that had Wladyslaw Gomulka's new government in a nervous dither...
...advertising tie-in with the national convention. Said Democrat Lynes, in rounded Madison Avenue phrases: "Tastemakers are always going places (like Chicago), where they foregather with other tastemakers and come home and tell people about the wonders they have seen. Since they are influential in their communities, peo ple follow their lead...
...having put France in the painful position of making a decision, was stuck with a France that would expect to go on making decisions-just as if it had a grown-up government. France, Washington realized last week, would no more assent to the sim ple rearmament of Germany than it would to the plan, originally French, of rearming Germany within...
...upholder of correct living," who is too honest to send an innocent man to the guillotine "without some preliminary qualms of conscience"; the honest masses, who virtually cheer a vile crime because they think the criminal is one of them and because "a crime which outraged the peo ple in good society was not deserving of their protest." The thread of this dry, dispassionate satire hangs on the question: Will the murderer be caught? He is, but that hardly matters. What does matter is Novelist Aymeé's picture of provincial life. It is the prototype of a stock...
...Carpenters." He still flaunted his U.S. connections, and brushed aside all talk of a cut in U.S. aid with the sim ple protest, "But we've got to fix up the Philippines. After that," he added,"we can invite people over here from Indonesia and places like that and say, 'See what our American friends have helped us to do.' Then we can show them that we're not just an American puppet...