Word: sheds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tingfu Tsiang went to the rostrum, and Zorin led the other Communist bloc delegates in a walkout from the General Assembly. Tsiang dismissed the Communist regime as "un-Chinese in origin, nature and purpose." Reviewing the grim record of Red tyranny on the mainland. Tsiang urged that tears be shed "over the suffering" of the Chinese people rather than for "their lack of representation...
...young for good reason. Hindu and Buddhist tradition decree that Nepal's living goddess Kumari (meaning virgin) may never shed blood in herself or another; obviously, she must be replaced by another young girl when she reaches puberty. Black-eyed, pony-tailed little Laksmi, daughter of a goldsmith, was chosen from a field of six final contestants by a committee of priests who had scrutinized the girls' horoscopes and their bodies, for the goddess must be free of blemishes, birthmarks, scars or scratches. The goddess must also be brave; the final test was to shut the children...
...Western farm expert had never seen anything like it. On a tour last summer of Soviet collective farms, he was shown fields full of weeds, cabbages crawling with caterpillars, diseased corn. At a dairy farm in Byelorussia, 120 cows were jammed into a shed so filthy that the milkmaids took off their shoes rather than risk losing them in the mud. "What I saw was appallingly bad, rundown in every respect," said the expert last week. "But my tour was planned by the Russians themselves, so what I saw must have been far from the worst...
...troops to Syria, which is seperated from Egypt by Jordan, Lebanon and Israel. Suddenly, Nasser changed his mind. He called off the attack just after the first 120 Egyptian paratroops landed. (They surrendered.) Explaining his decision, Nasser asked sadly: "Does Arab fight Arab? For whose sake will blood be shed?" To the last he insisted: "The U.A.R. will remain...
...that yearning, harum-scarum, twelve-year-old Frankie who wanted to be The Member of the Wedding, Novelist McCullers has been part of the U.S. tradition of mooning, a tradition to which Sherwood Anderson, Eugene O'Neill, and William Saroyan, at his infrequent best, belonged. But where Frankie shed her fantasies for the more abundant life of growing up, the characters in the current novel are stripped of their fantasies only to wither away. Clock Without Hands is thus a kind of Member of the Funeral. Death is admittedly the theme Novelist McCullers chose for her novel...