Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well of a federal courtroom in Manhattan sat the tall man in the neat suit, motionless but intent. Beside him sat his wife. For the better part of three days last week the eyes of the pair-Alger and Pris cilia Hiss-were fixed on the man in the witness chair...
...Reds keep telling the West Germans that they would be better off united with their Eastern brothers. Communist agents whisper into the eager ear of discontent: "Just wait until we come." A heavy rattling of the Russian saber last week reinforced that whisper. Moscow, it was reported, was sending Marshal Ivan S. Konev, one of Russia's top military men, to head its Eastern zone army...
...years ago, he argued that he ought to get the job because he was no worse than the other candidates. Some of Adenauer's critics today say that the same applies to his new job as West Germany's Chancellor. Actually, Adenauer is a great deal better than other candidates; he ranks far above most other figures on the German political scene. The only man who approaches Adenauer's stature is the Socialists' Kurt Schumacher. With sharp, sardonic intelligence and fierce oratory, one-armed, one-legged Schumacher accuses Adenauer of being dominated by Ruhr industrialists...
...folksy side, the show has some agreeable music and peppy dancing, but nothing better; and as if Texas weren't big enough, it makes several fumbling forays across the state line into Oklahoma!. The show is actually best when it has a straight Broadway blare and stomp and when the cast, which could use more personal glamour, can show its professional savvy. Somehow Texas just can't find the right girl or gag in the pinches; it dawdles when it needs to spurt, and turns cheap when it ought to be charming...
...entertainment, the United Nations was shaping up as better than anything else on daytime television. Dramatically, the chief flaw was still the tendency of the opposing orators to repeat their arguments over & over again. As one of the Brooklyn teen-agers complained: "They just say what they think or what their country thinks, but they don't listen to anyone else. Once a person finishes talking, he goes to sleep already. He just listens to his own side and thinks he's right all the time...