Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...during the winter months, Rakosi's position deteriorated. After Khrushchev's denunciation of the "cult of personality," Hungarian rank and filers began muttering complaints of Little Stalin Rakosi. At the spring meeting of the Hungarian Writers' Federation, Rakosi was called a "murderer" and a "Judas," and on a vote of confidence only 20 out of 180 writers supported the party. Rakosi's one advantage is that the Russians seem unable to find anyone to replace him. But when the news came that Tito had been invited to visit Moscow in June, Rakosi-began to act like...
...parade, a stiff breeze caught thousands of colored banners and whipped them through the air. It was a fine day for the public reappearance of one of the revolution's most lamented victims: the skirt. For the first time, women marchers stepped along smartly in bright spring frocks and blouses instead of the sexless jackets and pants of recent years...
...warnings against tight dresses and too much "making up," sales of brassieres and Imperial Concubine face powder (named for a famous beauty of the Tang dynasty) shot up. A government official even spoke of "the beauty of curves." A dress shop opened last week in Peking with 3,000 spring dress varieties on sale...
Cried a Peking commentator: "Trees are budding and flowers are in bloom; let everyone of us dress up gaily, and compete with the beautiful spring." Nonetheless, practically all the men continued to wear liberation uniforms, and many women cautiously covered their new dresses with old clothes. The timid scanned the May Day reviewing stand for signs that would give them courage, but Chairman Mao and his gang appeared in their old dark suits, more like a phalanx of rigid revolutionaries than flowers in bloom...
...simply had to make him the favorite. Even the homebred hardboots from Jefferson County, Ky., agreed that Florida-bred Needles was the horse to beat in the 82nd running of the Kentucky Derby. But they all had their doubts. The big bay colt had won his big races this spring in his home state, where he got a 5-lb. native-son weight advantage. There was also an old bluegrass-and-julep tradition : "No horse whose name begins with 'N' can win a Derby." None ever had; Native Dancer, the favorite, was nosed out in '53; last...