Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Churchill was wrong, and Nehru remains today what he was twelve years ago: the biggest man in India. But at a considerable cost to the nation and himself. Last year Nehru told newsmen that he was feeling "flat and stale," and wanted to retire as Prime Minister. He was ravaged by the ceaseless struggle to get things done in the timeless, bottomless morass of India. Food production is still at the mercy of the nation's cycles of flood and drought. Huge, multipurpose economic projects start out magnificently and then gradually fall farther and farther behind schedule. The second...
...Congress in Budapest last week that Soviet troops would remain in the country "as long as the international situation demands it," the guest of honor pulled off the earphones through which he had been listening to a translation of the speech. Asked by a neighbor if there was something wrong with the set, Nikita Khrushchev replied: "I know the story...
...briefly, then plodded to a nearby bar, expressing a simple sentiment about his hard-knuckled brothers: "I made them, and I can break them." At week's end, Montreal Wrestling Promoter Eddie Quinn, a part owner of El Morocco, reasoned that the Crosby combo had been booked all wrong to begin with. He offered them a good deal for a tag-team grappling match in a local arena next month, figuring that a two-against-two skirmish "might be fairer...
...flight of Monkey Sam was not momentous; it was merely one of the minor but essential steps that must be taken before a rocket climbs into space carrying an astronaut (scheduled for late 1961).But it proved that if anything goes wrong on the early upward leg of such a flight, man can bail out and live...
However, your apparent view that Audience is not interested in undergraduate work is wrong. Most of the past and present editors of Audience have Harvard or Radcliffe affiliations. We have published Harvard undergrads in the past and will do so again. But where are all the good manuscripts? Nothing gladdens old people's hearts (some of us are almost forty) like finding a brilliant new writer.... Firman Houghton '41, Editor...