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...refugees and prisoners. Vast hordes of peasants have left their meager land to escape the Red terror. In ramshackle huts on the fringes of provincial towns, they sit hungrily day after day. When a foreign newsman appears, they gather around him. Why does the U.S. not send a torrent of aid? Most of those who ask this question have kin or acquaintances who came back rich from America. To them the U.S. is a bottomless well of wealth...
Dodge said Schiller had stopped skiing about 75 feet from the lip of the headwall and then had slipped gradually until he was carried over the edge into a torrent of water that coursed under the snow cover...
...usual torrent of intramural reports was reduced to a dribble last night because only two contests could be run off between the afternoon showers. The Winthrop baseball team kept dry enough to defeat Kirkland, 6 to 2, while Eliot beat Leverett, 9 to 5, in softball...
...that time (1910), China's revolution against the tottering Manchu dynasty was in progress. Swept along by the torrent, Mao clipped off his queue as an antimonarchist demonstration. Other students promised to follow his example, but later reneged. This prepared Mao for party discipline-or what Lenin called "democratic centralism." Recalls Mao: "A friend of mine and I therefore assaulted them in secret and forcibly removed their queues, a total of more than ten falling victim to our shears...
...months a torrent of science propaganda has sluiced from Moscow's presses. Murky with Marxist doubletalk, it praises Soviet science, denounces Western science as the tool of capitalism and the slave of doctrinal errors, such as "idealism" and "formalism." Along with the orchids for Russia and brickbats for the West go long polemic discourses on such subjects as genetics and quantum mechanics. Most of it is far above the heads of the Russian (or any other) general public...