Word: wilier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cuba's fanatic, poorly armed rebels last week tried to smash President Fulgencio Batista with the ultimate weapon of civilian revolutions: the general strike. But Batista, a tough, wilier strongman than such fallen dictators as Argentina's Perón or Venezuela's Pérez Jiménez, saw the blow coming, prepared well, warded it off with hardly a bruise...
Intrigue put Khrushchev into power, but he acts as if popularity will keep him there. No more beguiling or wilier demagogue has come down the pike in Soviet Communism's 40 years in power. "In our agriculture, Comrades," he told a Czech audience last week, "we see a great progress at present. Frankly speaking, we sometimes experience childish joy in it. Some workers in our trade organization sounded an alarm, saying there are no freezing plants to store our pork. I told them that we would easily solve this situation, which they chose to call a disaster. There...
Wagner: The Flying Dutchman (Hans Hotter, baritone; Viorica Ursuleac, soprano; George Hann, bass; Karl Ostertag, tenor; Franz Klarwein, tenor; Luise Wilier, contralto; Chorus and Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, Clemens Krauss conducting; Mercury, 8 sides LP). First complete recording of Wagner's early opera. Performance and recording: good...