Word: pupil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most kids are. In Douglas County, 24 out of 36 schools have outdoor privies, five have illegal cesspools, and 31 have no running water. At one time, a school near Inman was found to be operating in the kitchen of a ranch. Its teacher: Mrs. Joseph Pojar. Its pupils: five little Pojars. Near Broadwater, one 82-year-old teacher has to live in the school, cook her meals on a hot plate, sleep on a cot pitched beside her desk. Near Kimball, Teacher Helen Layer is in the same fix: she has one room, one stove, one pupil...
Blundell arrived in Kenya 18 years ago as a "farm pupil." During the war he bought the site of his present farm. It was virgin bush. Today it is a trim model farm, with neat contours and terraces, fields of asparagus (canned for export) and sleek Guernsey cattle. Relatively speaking, he is a liberal. That is to say, he thinks the whites should run Kenya with only a junior position for the Indians and the Africans (each of whom outnumber the whites). But at the same time he believes in uplift for the aborigines...
...forbidding presence who stepped from Stalin's shadow into the role of No. 1. Nobody cried: "Stalin is dead, long live Malenkov!" Molotov, in his funeral oration, did not even mention Malenkov's name. Beria, in his single reference to Malenkov, identified him as "the talented pupil of Lenin and the faithful comrade-in-arms of Stalin...
...present, this was enough-and even this tribute involved some stretching of the facts. Far from having been a pupil of Lenin's, 51-year-old Georgy Malenkov took no part in Lenin's 1917 Revolution or the bloody civil war that followed. According to the official Soviet account, Georgy Malenkov joined the party at 18, which sounds young enough. The fact is, he had sat prudently on the sidelines for two years (1918-20), though the Red army occupied his Ural home town of Orenburg; he enlisted under Lenin's banner only after the outcome...
Malenkov's star was rising again, this time in a clear sky. In January last year, Radio Moscow proclaimed: "True pupil of Lenin, comrade-in-arms of Stalin ... on your 50th birthday we wish you, dear Georgy Malenkov, many years of health." Georgy Malenkov had arrived...