Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Justice in Time. Paris' famed Cirque d'Hiver was persuaded to lend its ring and five lions-Pasha, Prince, Romeo, Pigalle and Hamed-for the legal demonstration. "Never turn your back on Prince," admonished Circus Manager Alexandre Bouglione as Steinmann prepared to enter the cage. A breathless girl in black rushed up to wish the trainer bonne chance. "This," shouted the lawyer for the defense, "is all irrelevant," but nobody paid any attention. A court bailiff pulled a green dossier from his overcoat pocket and settled down to take notes...
...conference room overlooking the back garden at No. 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister Attlee conferred endlessly with his cabinet. Everyone thought the other fellow's expenses could be cut, but did not see how his own department could struggle along on any less. Foreign Minister Bevin wanted to cut social services, Health Minister Aneurin Bevan insisted that his housing and health plans were "sacrosanct." Attlee tried to mollify everybody. He was still keeping strict secrecy when he took the plan to Buckingham Palace for the King's approval...
...mouse. The overall pruning of government expense, Attlee said, would amount to ?250 million ($700 million) of which ?140 million would be accounted for by a cutback in capital investment-schools, hospitals, highways, fuel and power facilities, etc. In addition, residential housing and other building would be cut back by ?70 million. The outlay for education would be trimmed by ?5,000,000, resulting in costlier school lunches (up 1?) and restricted bus service...
...deluge came too late for Castro and thousands of others like him. When Castro got back to his hillside, he found his wife methodically collecting straw for adobe bricks. His house had dissolved, his cornpatch was gutted, his pig and ox had strayed or drowned. Last week, as the first adobe bricks for his new house were drying in the sun, he and his family hunched round an open fire eating fresh-water crabs from Lake Atitlán. But there were no tortillas. Corn could not be bought at any price...
...Safely back in Hollywood after flooring a glamor girl who wanted his panda doll in a Manhattan nightclub (TIME, Oct. 10), Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart reminisced a bit. The judge who dismissed the girl's suit, he thought, was "a nice guy-the Frank Morgan type." But Bogart decided that the real hero of the incident was Bogart, who had "wised some people up about the notion that they can push celebrities around." He added: "I'd say it compared to the Dreyfus case. You might report that I struck a blow for freedom, not to mention...