Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germany. Mikoyan mentioned Dulles' press conference three days earlier, wondered whether the U.S. had actually given up its insistence on free elections as a prerequisite to German unification, as had been reported by U.S. newspapers (see PRESS). Dulles said bluntly that the U.S. position had not changed a bit. Had Mikoyan alternate suggestions? No, indeed-beyond speaking vaguely of a confederation of the two Germanys that might eventually lead to actual reunification...
Even Fleet Street reporters for Britain's brashest tabloids considered the Ellis articles to be "a bit near the bone...
...while he was neither ready to help Fanfani nor to climb down one bit from his neutralist foreign policy, Nenni was ready at last to break his formal "unity of action" pact with the Reds. Over stormy protests from pro-Communist members of the party, the delegates voted by a 3-to-2 margin to end the "popular front" electoral alliance with the Communists. Cooperation with the Reds will continue in trade unions, local governments and cooperatives. At the moment, this amounted to not much of a break for Nenni, and none at all for Fanfani...
Auntie Mame. Rosalind Russell is terrific as the world's most celebrated auntique, but as far as the script is concerned, it's a bit of a shame about Mame...
Inspector Maigret, which has been at the Exeter for several weeks, is a bit on the psychological side, but not quite intellectual enough to be disastrous, Based on a Georges Simenon novel, the film concerns the untimely demise of a long string of plump, middle-age women in a small Paris district. The murderer becomes overconfident, and in one of his triumphant moments makes the mistake of calling the famous Maigret to goad him into action. Once the pipe-smoking, perpetually weary Maigret arrives on the scene, however, the ball-game is clearly over for the murderer. Using most...