Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Transformation. By last week the Davis movement was receiving letters at the rate of 400 a day. From Savoy, in the southeast, a hysterical woman wrote: "I think you must be Christ returned." A Courbevoie worker wrote: "This is our last hope." Recently Garry Davis filled the Salle Pleyel and the Velodrome d'Hiver, two big auditoriums in Paris, with cheering thousands-crowds such as only Charles de Gaulle, and possibly Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, could attract. His committee of support includes Albert Einstein, who cabled that "only the unbendable will of the people can free the forces which...
...Kaifeng, capital of Honan province, the Communist take-over was peaceful. A U.S. woman missionary said "they came in, fired into the air and told Nationalist soldiers to lay down their arms. Civilians were told to go home-'walk, don't run.' " Commissars posted a bill of rights. One clause provided "freedom of thought and religion." Food was brought in and prices went down. Before the new policy was introduced, ton chang (the people's court) was dreaded by many middle-class Chinese. The Reds admitted regretfully that "in some places landlord and rich peasant elements...
...Good Things. At 18, she was a beautiful young woman with shining eyes and jet black hair. She wanted the "good things in life." In the fall of 1943, she began to go about with one Vincenzo Antonelli, a notorious young Fascist street brawler, who roamed the Jewish quarter with a gang of toughs, plundering shops and beating up stray Jews. Then the Nazi SS (which ruled Rome) started raiding the ghetto. Whole families were sent to concentration camps...
...Erni, "simply does not exist. It's the idea that matters." The ideas that Erni tries to put on canvas are often understandable enough in themselves, but that does not make them any easier to picture. For example, how should an artist express the thoughts of a pregnant woman sitting on the ground somewhere in Europe? The first part of Erni's solution was to get the woman on canvas as realistically as he could and give her ah expression of dull waiting. Then, just over her head, he drew a tangled cat's cradle of white...
...counter, originally as a remedy for intestinal worms and the itch (scabies). Since its anti-alcoholism qualities were discovered, Sweden has required a doctor's prescription for its Swedish equivalent, Abstinyl, to discourage dangerous experimenting by pranksters and well-meaning wives. Dr. Stig Hammergen has warned the Stockholm Woman's Medical Society that a mixture of Abstinyl and alcohol can kill people with weak hearts...