Word: talese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When someone starts an ominous rumor about Chicago's Continental Illinois Bank, people generally listen. Reason: the whispered tales have often been true. Continental, the biggest banking company (assets: $41.4 billion) between San Francisco and Manhattan, has during the past two years established an unfortunate record of making loans...
Such were the bizarre twists and turns of the notorious Hiss-Chambers case. In the decades since the case dominated the headlines, the facts have all but disappeared under the symbolic baggage piled on them. For liberals, the dapper, Harvard-educated Hiss-who left the State Department in 1947 and...
Not to mention sexually audacious? by Chinese standards. Last year, according to Chinese press reports, 700 of the 800 pupils at a Shanghai high school enjoyed subscriptions to Story, a tabloid filled with teasing tales of lechery and lust. Feng Bing, 17, a typical teenage inmate in a Shanghai reform...
Mary Cunningham tells tales
NONFICTION: D.W. Griffith, Richard Schickel ∙ The Knight, the Lady and the Priest, Georges Duby ∙ Knock Wood, Candice Bergen ∙ The March of Folly, Barbara W. Tuchman "Son," Jack Olsen ∙ Tales from the Secret Annex, Anne Frank