Word: tensed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Bolshevik Army. When the Bolshevik Revolution broke in 1917, Zhukov was back home in his Kaluga village, a sick young dragoon of 21 and, like millions of other Russians, profoundly disillusioned vith the Czar's conduct of the war. To crush active opposition to their rule, the Bolsheviks...
Heartbreak's strength comes partly from Director Jacques Dupont's almost matter-of-fact attention to reinforcing detail: a mustached machine-gunner tensely wetting his lips as he waits for his comrades to advance; the primitive clutter of a front-line trench. It flashes with moments of strange, sunlit beauty that almost belie the shocking truth of man diligently preoccupied with killing man. There are also lighter moments-with Gallic, wine-happy R & Rs (Rest and Recuperators) in Japan. But Director Dupont never strays far from the terrible business that carried him, the French battalion and the tens...
The truth of the matter is that the real pioneering in making high-quality books available at a low price has been largely that of our company, to some extent reinforced by our competitors, particularly Pocket Books . . . We have sold not tens of thousands but millions of copies of Homer...
Chiang made his decisions by introspection amounting almost to spiritual flagellation. Daily he set aside a time for meditation (he was converted to Christianity and became a Methodist, at the urging of his wife, in 1932). He kept a diary with a page at the end of every week for...
On tour through the rich black earth district where quietly flows the Don, Communist Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev noisily decreed a new purge for Russia's 94,000 collective farms. "We must declare war on neglect, mismanagement and irresponsibility," said Khrushchev. "Some tens of thousands of particularly experienced workers...