Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial lasted just one day. The verdict of guilty was returned the following morning, and Milovan Djilas was sentenced to seven more years at hard labor. After the verdict was read, Djilas rose and started to protest not the verdict or the sentence, but the court's attempt to make it appear that he had had an open trial. He was not permitted to finish. Two guards hustled him out of the courtroom and back to prison...
...slumped in red-faced solemnity on the platform as delegates hurled all his old arguments back at him. A Lanarkshire mother pleaded that Nye save her two sons from the leukemia that fallout would bring. Frank Cousins himself rose to confess unashamedly that he saw this issue in terms of his six-year-old daughter and favored abolishing the bomb. When Bevan finally took the floor to answer, the hall stirred. "I have probably made more speeches to more people condemning the bomb than anyone else at this conference," he began. "I am as strongly against it as ever...
Tears & Dirndls. Howls of protest rose in the hall. Red and angry he stood his ground, his eyes darting blue sparks. When the hubbub quieted, he spoke slowly. "If war were to break out between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.," he said with heavy emphasis, "this country would be poisoned together with the rest of mankind. I want an opportunity of influencing the policies of these countries. If a Socialist Foreign Secretary is to have a chance, he must not be disarmed diplomatically and intellectually." Bevan seemed utterly frank. He said he had heard rumors that he was taking this...
This was not what happened four years ago when the "opera" had its first stage performance in Mannheim. Then the audience reacted wildly almost as soon as the curtain rose. Emitting open vowel sounds, the tenor sang: "AUAUAUAUAU a U A U." Outdoing him, the bass boomed, "U UE U UE," only to be interrupted by a chorus which periodically burst out with "Agatta-Gatta-Gatta." These sounds so unnerved the Mannheim audience that it responded with heartfelt "pfuis!", and an incensed reviewer described it as possibly "the worst opera ever written." By contrast, some Berlin spectators last week...
...Dancing Eyebrow. For centuries, the Indian dance lay fallow in half-forgotten temples. But as India rose to national consciousness and independence, the art was deliberately revived by such devotees as Dancer...