Word: true
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building toward a record 1.5 billion bushel surplus next year (cost: $3.5 billion). Benson's solution, which Congress ignored this year in passing its own bill, which President Eisenhower vetoed, would do away with acreage controls and include price supports that slide a little each year toward true market levels...
...tactics employed against them in Kerala, the Reds fired off a 53-page "charge sheet" against the West Bengal administration of Chief Minister Dr. B. C. Roy, the 77-year-old leader of the local Congress Party, accusing his regime of corruption, misrule, nepotism and graft -much of it true. A "Famine Resistance Committee" drew up plans for mass defiance of the law and set August 20 as the trysting...
...rule of law, half rediscovered"). But more and more his promises have given way to renewed repression, not only because Moscow and its Polish followers want it that way, but because Gomulka has discovered that a little liberty is a dangerous thing: "Gresham's Law is not true of political coinage - for the customs of a free society, wherever the Poles introduced them, began forthwith to drive Communist methods out . . . Where democratization inside the party was permitted, the organizations speedily fell apart...
...Gestapo that they try to set her to spying out the racial history of one of her new friends, a suspected Jewess. The trap, of course, snaps on Eva herself. The next stop is the Auschwitz concentration camp. Nesting at the end of the line for Eva are true love and a family in Israel. From the moment she bounces into view, no reader can doubt that her ending will be upbeat...
Kentuckian Warren, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for All the King's Men (based on the saga of Huey Long), has turned out a drawerful of novels since then that are exciting, expertly written, and disappointingly slick. In The Cave, he stays true to form...