Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Nikita Khrushchev wants to be taken at full seriousness, he does not merely pop off at a diplomatic reception, he solemnly reads what he has to say...
...East Germany Premier Otto Grote-wohl seemed almost in a hurry to say, shortly after Khrushchev's speech, that nothing "sensational" was about to happen-then, correcting his initial announcement, added that, "naturally," Russian troops are likely to withdraw only when Western forces pull...
...slender, 48-year-old Dominican priest could scarcely believe the news: the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament had just awarded him the 1958 Nobel Peace Prize. "I'm too young." Father Georges Pire protested. But an hour and a half later, he sent off his acceptance: "Say thank you to Norway, whose heart has replied so splendidly to mine...
...they readily admitted murdering 34 victims, explained that they ate the hand muscles of their victims to gain the skillfulness of the murdered one, the heart and liver to acquire his courage, the sexual organs to gain his power. Like the famed Aniotas or leopard men, Belgian officials say, the murderers often wore hooded, waist-long cloaks of crocodile skin that left their arms free to seize and strike. The attacks mostly took place at dawn or twilight in foggy or hazy weather, and the victims were often paralyzed by fright by the supernatural appearance of the crocodile...
...Cyprus, Sir Hugh broadcast to British civilians: "You are all in the front line now. No one should say, 'It can't happen to me.' " Then the British began to put into action the most drastic measures yet taken against EOKA, the Greek terrorist organization, and against Greek Cypriots in general...