Word: pockmarked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Szena Square only a rare pockmark remains. On the corner where the fighting was most savage, an old woman stands, basket in arm, selling hens. On the surface normalcy has returned. Grass and flowers now surround the tree where an AVH (secret police) colonel once hung. Gone from the parks and squares are the temporary graves of the Freedom Fighters. The Russians have made a tremendous effort to dress up the country. As a result, Hungary has been provided with the highest standard of living behind the Iron Curtain-the well-traveled say Budapest lives better than Moscow itself. Food...
Publicity & Psychology. The best explanation: 99% of the pox was produced by publicity and mass psychology. In city after city, careful study showed that most of the pockmarks were the result of normal damage-gravel, stones and other objects kicked up by a car ahead or blown by the wind. Glass experts pointed out that some of this damage might seem mysterious, because safety glass, hit by a piece of gravel, may suddenly develop a pockmark several hours later...