Word: alter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...used to his sitters' criticisms that he began to define a portrait as "a likeness in which there was something wrong about the mouth." But he always refused to change his work. Once, a lady complained about the way he had done her nose. "Oh, you can alter a little thing like that," said Sargent, quickly handing her the portrait, "when you get it home...
...valiant fight, Mindszenty lost on the school issue last week. The Hungarian Parliament declared the parochial schools nationalized. Catholics could not alter the official decree, but they had ways of retorting. Across the land, at the cardinal's order, church bells tolled a 15-minute requiem. In Budapest (before the police broke up their demonstration) women shouted: "Wait till September-our children will be taught at home...
There are almost no disclosures of inside information (however much new material there is in the book) which drastically alter the contemporary picture of events. There is no spirit of now-it-can-be-told. There is a continuity of history; the war was what it was reported to have been; the official information that he now releases simply fills in the account. The zest with which he writes of the British navy, and the clarity with which he describes naval battles, despite the fact that they are the most interesting part of The Gathering Storm, make it seem possible...
Vacationing in Sun Valley, Secretary of State George Marshall stated grimly: "The reduction proposed would, I consider, alter the European program from one of reconstruction to one of mere relief...
Whether an intimate glimpse of local masculinity will alter last year's verdicts is impossible to predict. There is a scathing opinion to be overcome...