Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West, the event was a major disaster, still incalculable in its consequences. For Communism, it was the greatest victory since the Russian Revolution. For most of the Chinese people, it meant peace-but only in the sense that large-scale fighting would stop. It also meant the kind of war which the Chinese have often known-the silent, constant war which tyrannic governments wage upon their people...
...marchers lived off the land, though the Communists never mentioned plunder, spoke only of "confiscation committees." Provincial populations fled in terror before "Mr. Soviet," as the Red army became known. The Reds' first great obstacle was the Yangtze, where Chiang hoped to stop them. A Red detachment in captured Nationalist uniforms managed to take a small river port which permitted the whole army to cross. But the most famous incident on the Long March was the crossing of the Tatu River, where a detachment of Communists swung across hand over hand on the bare iron chains of a half...
...sculptures looked like nothing at all-which was just the way Arp and his tight, bright circle of admirers wanted them. Albers' work was mathematically precise; Arp's cloudy figures were elaborately pointless: in all their polished bulges, holes, twists and suave concavities there was nothing to stop the eye, the hand, or the mind...
...picture had been achieved spontaneously; Albers makes a point of waiting at least a year between the time of his first sketch and the time he begins painting, measures his color areas to give them precise geometrical proportions. ("My paintings are recitals; too many artists stop with the rehearsals.") Among the titles of his newest paintings were "Four Central Warm Colors Surrounded by Two Blues" and "Neutral Gray Margin and Center the Same...
...commonest adjustment to a mixed marriage, says Leiffer, is for one or both of the partners to stop taking an interest in church. "Of the 444 men who were involved in a Roman Catholic-Protestant marriage, no no longer had even a nominal connection with their old church and 124 had not attended church for a year. Of the 449 wives involved in such marriages ... 60 claimed no church affiliation and 91 had not attended church for a year." Usually it is the husband who sacrifices his religion on the altar of marital concord. Typical, reports Leiffer, is an interview...