Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extorted their savings and killed their families. Before, we took our strength from our families. Now, when you go down to the quay, you see the mothers and fathers weeping while their sons go off to China. None of them has come back yet, except as a spy, an agent or a corrupter...
...Kraft TV Theater also took a flyer at the toga-and-sandal crowd with Whim of Iron, a halfhearted comedy about Byzantine days and nights which came out so ineptly that its author, Michael Dyne, insisted on being identified over the air as "Michael Roberts." Explained Dyne's agent: "That's the only form of protest a writer on television...
...Mississippi, scourged by flood and frost as well as record cotton surpluses, Bolivar County Farm Agent T. Y. Williford reported: "We are probably in as bad shape as when we plowed up cotton in 1933, or even worse...
...strikers stone and dent the Kohler plant's front door, brought in the National Guard, ended with the union defeated (see cut). Eighteen years later labor attacked again, and this time breached the porcelain-hard curtain: the U.A.W. won an NLRB election, recognition as the employees' bargaining agent and a contract which the U.A.W. called "inferior...
...Best supporting actor: Edmond O'Brien, for his sweaty, bootlicking press agent in The Barefoot Contessa...