Word: styling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...cover the withdrawal they planned to attack Ho in his own "military capital," Thainguyen, a town 40 miles north of Hanoi. On Oct. 1 a combined French force of parachutists, infantry and naval units struck at Thainguyen. The operation was perfectly carried out in Western military style, but after a few skirmishes, the Viet Minh defenders melted away...
Germany's Russian-zone Communists this week staged one of the most successful Hitler-style ja elections in history. Citizens were free to vote either ja or nein to a single list of candidates. They were free to vote out in the open where Communist checkers could see them, or to go into a polling booth. Catch was that Communist election workers noted the names of all who used the polling booths. Fearing Communist reprisals, nearly all East Germans voted out in the open and voted...
Managers of state-owned clothing shops displayed mannikins dressed in the jampec style, along with the warning that "everybody who imitates this American fashion madness belongs to the capitalist U.S. in spirit." One shop window (see cut) showed a gorilla next to a jampec and a telegram from the Budapest zoo's monkey house protesting against the insult of comparing a jampec to one of their kind...
This is the second year in a row that the Cadets are playing the Crimson away from home, on a field much bigger than the postage stamp field at West Point. This makes it easier for the Crimson to open up the game and solve Army's rugged style of play...
...Cary's style is easy and conversational. Except for the first seven pages, the story is written entirely in the present tense, which gives it the quality of a synopsis. That is precisely what it is: the synopsis of a whole block of English history, told through the life of one woman. "A Fearful Joy" avoids the monotony of a synopsis, however; Cary chooses his incidents well, and his story is well-paced...