Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heartstrings will be pulled," said a tired British delegate, "but the mere cold facts will tell an eloquent tale." At the Grand Palais in Paris, he and other delegates were working 15 hours a day last week to finish Western Europe's response to the Marshall approach. They had little time for anything but the cold facts. The conference bureau had not sold a theater seat in two weeks. This strict attention to business had produced some results. One delegate reported on the conference's biggest achievement...
...were fellow citizens, worshiped God in their city and their city in God. The rest of the world seemed more remote than the saints. Wrote Gogol: "Moscow is an old home-keeping person, it bakes bliny, it looks from afar and listens, without rising from the armchair, to the tale of what goes on in the world." Muscovites retained their simple faith, which often took the homey form of poetic superstition. Perhaps the most widespread legend was that the huge Tower of Ivan within the Kremlin was married to the Sukharev Tower, a cute little number outside the Kremlin walls...
...Changes. Moscow could no longer listen to the tale of the world. It was the heart of the tale. The Revolution once more made it the capital of Russia. Once more, the country's tyrants dwelt in the Kremlin. With the new masters came symbols of the age that produced them-factories (steel, machine tools, electric equipment, autos, locomotives). The Communist planners went to work, tore down whole sections, built new functional concrete palaces...
...member of the U.S. Embassy arrived in Lahore from Delhi with another tale of horror. Reaching the small station of Okara, near Montgomery, he found the station platform utterly deserted except for several hundred dead Hindus and Sikhs lying around the platform, apparently slaughtered only a few hours before while waiting for the train to escape. All these people were workers in a textile mill which had been attacked by Moslems. Their bodies were mostly stripped and in several instances limbs had been torn from the bodies. The wife of a British textile factory manager told how a Moslem...
...idleness. He had a wife, a mistress, and an illegitimate child to support. Says Biographer Bell: "We may suspect that his life at Madrid at this time was not unlike that of the soldier described in El Suez de los Di-vorcios [The Judge of the Divorce Court, a tale by Cervantes]. According to his satirical wife, this soldier earns nothing, goes to Mass, stands gossiping at the Guadalajara Gate, comes home to dinner at two, spends the afternoon and evening gambling, and returns at midnight, when he has supper, if there is any, makes the sign of the Cross...