Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...deal with another question Gorky had raised about the newspapers. "You are absolutely right," he wrote, "when you say that our press is all mixed up about the problems of anti-religious propaganda. Terrific stupidities get in sometimes . . . We still have a long way to go in that field ... I have had no time yet to discuss your propositions with our anti-religious comrades. I'll write...
...plane from Bratislava an American passenger, Katherine Kosmak, USIS librarian in Prague, noticed nothing amiss until the pilot began to circle for a landing. Then she heard a woman remark: "Oh, this isn't Prague." On the field below were U.S. military planes. In a hubbub of surprise and alarm, the liner rolled out, taxied up to the line. U.S. officers yanked open the hatch, yelled: "Get out, get out! No one is going to be hurt. You are in Munich. One of your pilots doesn't like Czechoslovakia...
...anarchist bomb. But The Golden Twenties mostly concentrates on the high, wide & handsome aspects of the Jazz Age-Red Grange swivel-hipping toward the goal line, Dempsey and Firpo in the ring, Babe Ruth putting the ball and ball game away with a long clout to right field. The nation, turning from dance marathons and speakeasies, held its breath while Lind bergh flew the Atlantic, Gertrude Ederle swam the Channel, and miners tunneled in vain to save Floyd Collins from a Ken tucky cave...
...group's most outstanding graduate was a 24-year-old New Yorker named Jedediah Strong Smith, an ex-clerk on a Great Lakes freighter who had come to town in time to spot Ashley's ad. Three years later, when beaver-rich General Ashley retired from the field and sold his interests to Trapper Smith and two other lieutenants, they lost no time in organizing an 18-man party and plunging into the unexplored land south of the Great Salt Lake in a search for new trapping grounds. Although Mexican-held California was one of their objectives, they...
Conscience Makes Cowards. Like American Paul (The Sheltering Sky) Bowles and French Albert (The Plague) Camus, Italian Ennio Flaiano has found Africa a fertile field in which to cultivate an existentialist viewpoint. The unnamed lieutenant who narrates The Short Cut feels that he was the victim of events; even his murder of the Ethiopian girl seemed a deed to which he was driven by forces beyond his control. But his conscience worked against him, carried him into a feverish world where he became convinced that his victim had given him leprosy. When his careful inquiries about the disease aroused...