Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wilder. Bedouins whirled through the Arab sword dance. Soviet-made helicopters swooped overhead, 50,000 citizens paraded with their "Arab Unity" banners past the Parliament. Dark-suited legislators, who had just voted themselves and aging President Kuwatly out of jobs, produced guns from somewhere and blazed away into the sky in celebration...
Saved from Suicide. Co Ha's father grabbed his head with his hands and moaned: "The sky is falling over my head." Tradition bound him to repay the insulted bridegroom with twice as much jewelry as he had given his betrothed, plus twice as many pigs and chickens as had been provided for the wedding feast. It was too much. Ha's father jumped into the Mekong, bent on self-destruction. But Co Ha's true love, watchfully waiting near by, dived into the river and saved him. Broken in spirit, Co Ha's father...
...Torrilhon interprets it, Bruegel's Mad Meg, in which a gaunt witch of a woman, clutching a variety of household objects, strides wildly under a flaming sky amid a hell's choir of monsters, is a painted description of "chronic hallucinatory psychosis due to menopause . . . The painting is full of obscene little monsters, and Meg seems obsessed by genital hallucinations. Two other symptoms are her careless and bizarre dress and her mania for collecting things. It is well known that old women suffering from this type of psychosis have a mania for carrying all their belongings...
Premier Félix Gaillard summoned newsmen to an impromptu conference one night last week and greeted them with a broad smile: "Gentlemen, good news at last. A corner of blue has opened in the sky for France. We are delivered from the nightmare in which we have been living for many months." Gaillard had just learned that his emissary Jean Monnet, France's most famed advocate of European unity, was coming home from Washington bearing $655 million in credits...
...this is apt to sound like pie-machine-in-the-sky, Kelso-Adler back up their ideas with concrete-and controversial -proposals. Among their suggestions: equity-sharing plans, distribution to stockholders of all corporate profits in the case of "mature" corporations, abolition of corporate income taxes and revision of personal income taxes, abolition of inheritance taxes. (At times, the program has the ring of "Capitalists of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your tax forms.") All capitalists-meaning, eventually, all citizens-would get a just return for their investments, limited only by another requirement of justice: that...