Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days later Vishinsky got to his feet and, in a monotone, for 75 minutes accused the U.S. of "bluster, blackmail and pressure" in Korea, retold the "germ warfare" tale, and charged that U.S. "billionaires" are bent on more & more bloodshed to swell their billions. Midway through, Acheson removed his earphones for a few minutes, and some delegates began leaving...
...Newton. Two years ago, he solemnly told a University of Denver science class that at least three saucers, carrying crews of tiny (30-inch) men, had landed in the U.S., that the Air Force had captured the crews and was hushing up the big story. Later, to support his tale, he cited "evidence" given by a mysterious scientist whom he called "Dr. Gee." The story told by Newton, a friend of Variety Columnist Frank Scully, got Scully started on his bestseller Behind the Flying Saucers (TIME, Sept. 25, 1950) which devoted a great deal of space to Newton...
...passion. In Awakening, Jean-Baptiste Rossi, 16, told a startling but sensitive story of a love affair between a youngster and a Roman Catholic nun. In The Illusionist (written three years ago) 22-year-old Françoise Mallet, a Parisian housewife and mother, tells perhaps the strangest tale of all, that of a 15-year-old girl who falls in love with her father's mistress. When the book appeared in France last year, the weekly Le Peuple spoke for most of the critics when it said: "The Illusionist is not, strictly speaking, a masterpiece...
Dickens in his Tale of Two Cities summed up pre-French Revolution feeling with this sentence: "We had everything before us, we had nothing before us." The CRIMSON wonders if Massachusetts voters do not face the same problem in the state's gubernatorial contest. The contenders are hefty incumbent Governor Paul A. Dever, seeking a third term, and Congressman Christian A. Herter...
Despite its pretentiousness, the book has some completely charming parts. Lee's tale of how he engaged four learned old Chinese sages to learn Hebrew in order to translate a crucial verb in the Bible is one of them, as is the story of how Sam Hamilton's wife took her first plane ride. The flight was doubly terrifying because the airplane was something she essentially did not believe...