Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unbelievably Better." This hostility was far from unanimous. Ernst Reuter, Berlin's hard-hitting Socialist mayor, just back from a trip to the U.S., said the agreement was "unbelievably better than anything we had expected after all those months." Christian Democrat Konrad Adenauer, president of the Bonn council, warned that "failure to reach agreement [at Bonn] would be a fiasco for the democratic idea and a catastrophe...
After that, things should have been better for Claude, but there were other forces to fear. Last week, outside his cottage, Claude heard footsteps. He stepped to the door. A voice called: "We are your friends, Claude. We have come unarmed. We want to talk...
Cedric Hardwicke lumped radio and television with the atomic bomb. Declared Sir Cedric: "It is better to be killed in an explosion than to have the human mind gradually deteriorating in the home...
...nothing to my father and mother. I just can't. I just want to get out. But I can't. I get sick. Then my mother brings me stuff and my daddy does, too, to make me better." Eddie, going-on-five, was gleeful when he reported : "When I'm sick my daddy has to walk around at night for me and he says 'Goddam...
...staged and stepped up the proceedings with nimble skill, while the Jo Mielziner sets never jam the flow. As the little knucklehead, Mary Martin gives the performance of her career. She merges a gift for comedy with a delightful personality; she sings well, and turns out ballads even better. As the planter, Metropolitan Opera Basso Pinza proves himself an excellent Broadway performer. He has, beyond that, the kind of voice that show business is lucky enough to acquire once or twice in a generation. The whole supporting cast is good, particularly Myron McCormick as an unregimented Seabee...