Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrestling helps Wittenberg in his detective work ("The thing you've got to have in both is presence of mind"). The Police Department has cited him twice for bravery, once for rescuing two kids from a burning building, the other time for catching two armed bandits with his bare hands. His wife, an expert fencer, has passed her exams for policewoman...
...possible 1,000 thread-bare European students will be wearing cast-off Brooks Brothers suits and other college-wear accoutrements shortly...
Over the Ponte Fabricio to Tiberina Island moved a long file of brown Franciscan nuns, the rustling of their robes lost in the rushing Tiber below. Soon solitary groups swelled into crowds; the tide of people stirred all over Italy-fishermen with bare, brown ankles and ruddy-faced mountain men and pale white-collar workers and factory hands with red kerchiefs and robed bishops and small-town women with babies in their arms. In many churches, Mass times were shifted so that the faithful would find it easier to reach the polls when they opened at 8. Priests read...
...harm, appear to have attempted to creste an allegory for our times, a dramatization of the concept that unreasonable hatred and stupidity make nations, as well as men, wipe each other out of existence. But the play itself adds up to little more than a somewhat melodramatic series of bare repetitions of this concept which, admirable as it may be in itself, requires something more than persistent enunciation to become entertainment. Similarly the Dramatic Club, far from meaning harm, has attempted to resurrect what it believed, along with a small minority of New York drama critics and theatergoers...
...shoeshine boxes snatched from ragged urchins, kicked his face and head into a bloody pulp. Then they knotted a tie around his neck and dragged him six blocks. All afternoon his body lay in the gutter before the Presidential Palace while the rain water made little whirlpools around his bare heels. Gaitán had been picked up and carried to the Clínica Central...