Word: slaves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then fell the news of Stalin's mortal stroke. Republican leaders grabbed it as a chance to avert a partisan brawl. The resolution, said Taft, was not worth a big fight. The Administration began studying ways more effective than resolutions to weaken the Communist grip on the slave nations...
...track man is almost a slave to the sport. He is expected to spend most of the fall getting in shape for the winter season; then build up in the winter for a big outdoor season. It takes as lot of time and work, and certainly a disproportionate liking for the sport...
...bring him down like a sack of hypocrisy. More's the pity that she writes pages of nonsensical epitaphs over her bleeding targets. The chip on her shoulder makes her believe that every man is as autocratic as a Turk and every female as malleable as a slave. Many of her protestations would strike even the inmates of a harem as being behind the times...
...troops the reasons for their presence in Europe in 1944, General Patton said: "We have to fight because we have committed ourselves to fight at the side of our allies. We have to fight because we cannot live in a world which is half free and half slave. We have to fight because if we didn't fight, as our fathers have fought, we should all be as naked as jay birds...
From Tigers to Torsos. Up to 1905, Sculptor Matisse is reasonably realistic and plainly the student of Rodin. There is a precise, crouched Tiger done in tense, slashing planes, a half-sized Slave, weary and hangdog. His women are more expressionistic, seem more like mere sketches for future work. His nude Madeleine, Nude Leaning on the Hands and Reclining Nude in Chemise are roughly scooped out to emphasize a side-slung hip, the languid sag of a relaxed body...