Word: biased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judges hurriedly consulted. Spectators burst into jeers and catcalls-some aimed at the bench and the prosecution for "political" bias. Said Prosecutor Mornet: "There are too many Germans in this room." The hubbub grew to a tumult of protests and shrieks, scuffling bodies, overturned chairs and tables. In the prisoner's dock the old man sat stoically until he was led away for safety. At Tommy-gun point, gendarmes restored order...
...Though the human tragedy involved is played to the hilt, not enough attention is given to the real issues involved, the issue of men versus capital, the fight of American labor to gain decent working conditions in heavy industry. But MGM is to be commended for the lack of bias in its presentation, even though it has failed to get at the heart of the warfare...
Shades of sentimental glory, as we this week nominate for a distinguished honor, that of "chow chintz number one." High on the list stand your authors--very high indeed. However, for reasons of bias we exclude ourselves, purely for bias. Ablest, we opine, is Bill Murray, ex-Indiana eager, but he is more or less closely pushed by Ted Marchese who knows not the meaning of the line...
...write history disguised as fiction, not fiction disguised as history. My Mr. Milton, allowing for Marie Powell's natural bias against the man who defrauded her mother of her "widow's thirds," is precisely the later renegade Milton-not the earlier orthodox Milton of the Minor Poems-who takes shape as one ploughs through the enormous mass of contemporary evidence provided by his Latin and English works, and by the more scholarly modern studies of his life and times...
...answer to PM's opponents who dislike the paper's liberal bias, Robertson points out, "it doesn't pretend to be impartial," "At least when you read a story in PM," he concludes, "you know that the author believes...