Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...similar picture appearing in the Sept. 24 issue of the central Hungarian Communist daily, Szabad Nép. The Communist explanation runs as follows: "According to the Geneva international agreement, P.W.s must be treated humanely, they must not be deprived of their personal belongings and must be provided with proper clothing and footgear. The imperialist troops, murderers of thousands of the peaceful Korean people, scornfully disdain the most elementary rules of humanity as well as international agreements. This picture shows an American soldier driving along previously stripped Korean P.W.s...
...border. "We are in very considerable difficulties," Acheson said. "We must clear away any misunderstanding that there may be in the minds of the Chinese. Everything in the world," he said, in the statement beamed directly at Peking, was being done to make the Communist Chinese "understand that their proper interests will be taken care...
...center of intelligence and education in this cultural backwash. The trouble for them and most of their friends is that intelligence and education simply enable them to see the appalling sterility of the rest of their friends, the town, and the whole country. This fills them with a proper Russian despair...
Mory's is still a private club, and about as private as the men's room in Grand Central. Almost any upperclassman can join, by countersigning two friends who are members and waiting until his application blank acquires the proper degree of mustiness...
...finest prose stylists writing today. He is a master stery-teller--"Helena" does not lag, even without a real plot. He has a delicate touch in recording the Inanities (and worse) of civilization. But "Helena" lacks the religiousness of a religious story, and the bite of a proper satire. What remains is mere teeth...