Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were knocked down and trampled, and a flying wedge of Rockefellers protected Anne-Marie from being crushed. Rocky embraced Anne-Marie and called her a "wonderful and intelligent girl." He shook hands with her leathery father, Kristian Rasmussen, 67, who was also being jostled, and asked Anne-Marie to tell him in Norwegian that he was a "good sport." One of Steven's sisters exclaimed at seeing Anne-Marie's brightly embroidered blouse and dirndl skirt: "What a pretty dress! Is it Swedish?" Answered Norwegian Anne-Marie dazedly: "Why should I be wearing a Swedish dress...
...threw his submarine ball, everyone knew that he was just as fast as most of the big kids in town. Still, the eight-year-old managed to stand up at the plate and take his three cuts, even though all the kids and parents in the park could tell only too well that he had wet his pants...
...details came out through the totalitarian screen of secrecy, and it was hard to tell how much of Red China's agricultural troubles were political, how much natural. But obviously, the disaster reports were one way to prepare Red China's 650 million for food shortages this winter. The 1959 crop yields are reported sharply below normal; the usual propaganda boasts of "record harvests in China's great leap forward" are notably missing this summer, and a People's Daily editorial growls that "an inclination to avoid hardship has found breeding ground among some cadres"-leading...
...liberalize it, cannot do without coercion and police power. Author Gibney finds another way of saying this, in the words of a witty Polish intellectual. In a small Jewish congregation, so goes the story, a young Communist was puzzling about one of Stalin's famous slogans and asked: "Tell me, Comrade Rabbi, can you build 'socialism in one country'?" The rabbi thought deeply. "Yes," he replied finally. "You can build socialism in one country, but you have to live in another...
Beyond that, the girls are as different as the writers who tell their stories. Eva's creator is bestselling Author (Compulsion) Meyer Levin; Myra's, an Irish poet and novelist named Francis Stuart. Their two tales are popular blends of genuine escape and ingenuous escapades...