Word: wisp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asia's second most successful Communist intriguer, Ho Chi Minh. flew into Peking to see the No. 1 in his business, Mao Tse-tung. As a special honor, No. 1 himself went down to the airport to greet wisp-whiskered Ho, a gesture Mao had not bestowed on such other arriving VIPs as India's Nehru, Britain's Attlee, the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold, or even Russia's Khrushchev and Bulganin. Ho and Mao, according to Peking radio, "embraced with great warmth...
...women swarmed through the shops sampling all the wares last week, there came to each a moment of joy, when she knew that what she had found was just the thing. "It's cute-and it does something for me," burbled a wisp of a girl in Manhattan's Bonwit Teller as she twirled in a filmy summer cocktail dress...
...Kyushu will be smaller and meaner, but it too will have half a dozen or more prints to be hung, one at a time, and contemplated according to the seasons. Each object, each gesture gives off a melancholy beauty inimitably Japanese. All is so precisely arranged that a wisp of dried fern or a few swirls of gravel in a garden may seem more overpowering than an Alpine view; a slightly disarranged bamboo blind can suggest chaos...
More terrifying than the Windigo to some of the mountaineers is a 5-ft. wisp of a woman who in her childhood decided that she would "bring religion" to the cabins in the hills. Now a grey-haired 42, Jessie Hyde was brought up in a brick house on her father's 200-acre farm. At ten she "heard God's voice clearly calling me." At 14 she held revival meetings in a schoolhouse. A few years later she began trudging the hills as a determined reformer...
...Fall of a Titan is doom-laden, a kind of Russian Macbeth with its pages drenched in suicides, rapes and murders. It is a book about the corruption of a nation's soul. Few scenes are memorable in themselves, but the cumulative effect is poignant and powerful. A wisp of a girl in a chemical plant manned by forced labor is raped by the foreman, goes mad, and hangs herself. Gurgling with vodka, the fat cats of the Rostov central committee storm the local ballet school, and as they pinch and paw the trembling girls, tell them the facts...