Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made a six-month visit to Mao Tse-tung's new China, listened patiently to lectures on Marxism and Leninism, saw factories, dams, parades. Back in Tibet, Red technicians set to work. Some 3,000 Tibetan students were shipped off to school in Red China. But things went wrong from the start. The hard-driving Red cadres filled with Communist zeal made little impression on the individualistic Tibetans, who felt that the inner perfection of a man's soul was more important than an asphalt surface on a road. Sighed the Dalai Lama: "China and Tibet are like...
...view on elfin wings. Waiting for her. seated on imitation mushrooms in the Blue Forest, are half a dozen moppets. Brigid sings her charges a song, offers a quiet moral (letter writing is a good thing), and manages to keep her wings on even when things go a little wrong, as they did when one recent guest announced plainly: "I hate you. Blue Fairy...
...Reporter Smith pocketed the guest list, copied from place cards, Mobster Giancana grumbled volubly on. He had a sneer for congressional investigating committees ("They couldn't catch me for a year; I like to hide from them"), a boost for syndicated crime ("What's wrong with the syndicate? Two or three of us get together on some deal and everybody says it's a bad thing. But those businessmen do it all the time and nobody squawks"), the back of his hand for the draft board that rated him a constitutional psychopath in 1943: "Who wouldn...
Chet Boulris had three safeties for the varsity, including a long wrong-field home run. George Harrington also made three hits, and center-fielder Charlie Leamy, usually no terror at the plate, contributed two triples to the losing cause. Singles by Mouse Kasarjian, Charlie Ravenel, and Doug Brown comprised the remainder of the Crimson's offensive efforts...
...listen to me." To the four Crosby cutups (Gary, 25, Twins Philip and Dennis, 24, Lindsay, 21), Dad's mournful tune came as a stunning surprise. Said Cinemactor Lindsay: "I don't know why he made the statement. No one meant to do any wrong, and we're all working hard...