Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Honored Ancestors. The party called a mass meeting of a thousand writers to bring Liu to his senses. He was accused of "ingratitude to the party" and of biting the hand that fed him. "How could Liu Shao Tang, a young man brought up in the new society all the way, and educated by the Communist Party, nevertheless degenerate to such an extent?" cried one party leader. The writers' conclusion: class origin. Said a party spokesman with obvious relief: "Liu was raised in a rotten landlord family; his mind was inscribed with words like 'Bring honor to your...
...identity of the mystery guest was no secret: he was the meandering Marquess of Milford Haven, 38, divorced since 1954 and long a close pal of Hungarian-born Cineminx Eva (Ten Thousand Bedrooms) Bartok. The mystery was why he had visited Eva, 28, at her mother's cottage in a London suburb two days in a row last week. Also there to greet Milford Haven was Eva's mystery moppet Deana, born to her last October in London almost a year after her divorce from her fourth husband. Eva had refused to name the father-though brightly adding...
...Annie lifted off smoothly, her twin orange exhaust tails bright against the overcast. Up she shot, straight into the first cloud layer at 3,000 ft. as the shock wave, like a thousand backfires, rumbled up the beach and welled over the spectators. MacNabb roared into his headset: "She's still going! She's still going! She's out of sight, and she's still going!" Bursting through the low clouds, Big Annie flashed into view again for a second or two, then bored into the clouds at 8,000 ft., her course true, her engines...
...thousand Harvard kidneys are safe from kidney stones, at least those stones brought on by a large consumption milk. William A. Heaman, Manager of Dining Halls, revealed last night that the Harvard undergraduate, contrary to his liquid-loving Yalie counterpart, drinks an average of two glasses per meal...
Bond, delivering the Inglis Lectures on Secondary Education, asserted that the child of a professional worker has a thousand times better chance of receiving a scholarship than the child of a laborer...