Word: gist
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...gist of Lileya is a love affair between a young serf and a young serfess during some sort of mid-summer's eve celebration. A fat, dissolute, and probably capitalistic robber baron starts the plot rolling by breaking up the festivities, and then deciding that he wants young Lileya as his scullery maid. Serf Stephen runs away to join the "free" (naturally) Cossacks, and Lileya hides in a broken-down water mill...
...statement sound ed more expansive than was the actuality; the delegates' area of agreement was limited to Algeria and the Congo. Houphouet-Boigny swore the delegates to secrecy until he could fly off to Paris to press the results on his good friend Charles de Gaulle. But the gist of the policy leaked. Houphouet-Boigny will urge De Gaulle to soften his terms for an Algerian ceasefire. In the U.N. the eleven states will doubtless oppose any condemnation of France on Algeria, but will support a U.N.-supervised referendum to determine Algeria's future. De Gaulle has rejected...
This autumn, Judge Gerald D. Culkin handed down this verdict on the two Puerto Rican youths, which, unfortunately echoed the attitudes of men like Msgr. McCafferey. Before pronouncing the sentence, he issued a brief statement the gist of which was that society "must pursue the basic primary reasons for youthful outbreaks of violence." He then sentenced the youths to death in the electric chair. After the decision had been issued, a Times reporter learned that there was no previous record of a 17-year-old boy being sent to the electric chair...
...England in 1958. In London's sporty Sunday The People, Dick George (as he was known to his U.S. acquaintances) began telling about father last week in a serialization of a forthcoming biography. His introduction to Papa was enough to stop Big Ben, bells, cogs and counterweights. Gist of it all: the P.M. was just as active in the boudoir as in Parliament. By Richard Lloyd George's count, his sire had 18 mistresses over almost 50 years, and by them had sired four illegitimate children-Observes the son: by the time Lloyd George got around to marrying...
...gist of Alsop's criticism was that Gallup had taken voters who were merely "leaning" toward one candidate or another and had placed them in the "decided" column. Wrote Alsop: "All this is not intended to suggest that Dr. Gallup has been cooking his poll. Yet the facts "have to be faced that this poll has become a fairly major extra-legal institution of American politics. For this reason, such things as unannounced transformations of 'leaners' into 'decideds' do not serve the public interest...