Word: tensed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the Ukraine, traditional Soviet "breadbasket," severe drought has raised the specter of famine, and increased peasant resistance to government collection of grain. Previous failures to control the peasants in this area (e.g., in the Dearly '30s, when farmers slaughtered millions of head of cattle when forced to collectivize...
The Communists are beginning to worry aloud about the tens of thousands of "freedom leaflets" spilled from huge plastic balloons wafted over their lands from the West. Western Europeans are apt to regard the balloons (a U.S. idea) as a lot of hot air. But Red army units in Austria...
Londoners by tens of thousands crowded to glimpse the low, muddy wall of the temple. Hearing that it would soon make room for an office building-or a "Temple of Mammon," as some oldfashioned, ritualistic Socialists insisted on calling it-Britons went home in their time-honored way to write...
Saunders Redding, 48, is a good-looking Negro professor of English at Hampton Institute (Va.), one of the nation's best Negro colleges. One spring day in 1952, the phone rang in his office and a voice said: "This is the State Department. Would you be available for a...
Despite Peking's attempts to minimize the disaster, China's worst floods in a century have drowned hundreds, made tens of thousands homeless, and turned an area the size of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi into a quagmire of disaster where millions soon might starve (TIME, Aug. 16...