Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spreading Infection. Calcutta's explosive social conditions had already brought relations between the city's Hindu majority and its 1,000,000 Moslems to the boiling point. Tens of thousands sleep on the streets or in abandoned sewer pipes and gutters are clogged with garbage, cow dung and...
Evtushenko and Voznesensky read their poems to tens of thousands, and their books are bestsellers. They know that just by tweaking the nose of authority-attacking Soviet antiSemitism, for example, or just praising the crazy doings of the young-they are helping a whole land full of people come to...
Some cities have wasted tens of thousands of dollars on futile efforts to keep pigeons away from public buildings with electrified grids, netting, dummies of cats or snakes, and supersonic howls. They might as well have put up a sign, "No Pigeons Allowed"-which is said apocryphally to have happened...
Amid the silliness, Moscow was wailing about Chinese violations of Soviet frontiers, especially in Far Eastern Sinkiang, where the argument goes back about 100 years. Last month Peking accused Moscow of luring tens of thousands of Chinese into Russia for the purpose of sending them back as Soviet saboteurs. Nonsense...
The march from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, a distance of about eight-tenths of a mile, had been scheduled to start at 11:30 a.m. But at least 20 minutes before then, a group of Negroes started strolling away from the Monument grounds on the way to...