Word: blur
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Communist countries, "I urge you not to let the prospect of monetary profits blur your vision. Know your enemy. Don't help him. Do more than that. Help the cause of free enterprise by supporting sound economic policies and good labor-management relations at home, and democratic foreign policies overseas...
...than the mouthings of a Talmadge, but this is small consolation to the intelligent Southerner. In point of fact there is no need to accept any extreme. The NAACP just as much as any ultra-conservative group is helping to obscure the true picture in the South and to blur human understanding at a time when, if this country is to solve its racial problem, human understanding has never been so needed. As long as Northern liberals and Negro leaders fail to sympathize with the South's problems (and Southerners similarly refuse to admit to them), this country will...
Sold to Sam Goldwyn for a record price of $1,000,000, Guys and Dolls is now flung to the cheap seats as a $5.000,000 Hollywood musical. Despite some bad lapses, it is a Sam-dandy of a picture show, a 158-minute blur of unmitigated energy, one of the year's best musicals...
...Stapp about one of his recent rides, "vision became a shimmering salmon-colored field with no images ... It felt as though my eyes were being pulled out of my head, about the same sort of sensation as when a molar is yanked . . . When the sled stopped, the salmon-colored blur was still there ... I lifted my eyelids with my fingers, but I couldn't see a thing. It was as though I was looking directly at the sun through closed eyelids...
...Sukhanov was hauled up in a dress rehearsal of the confession-and-purge trials to come. The charge : promoting Western military intervention to destroy the Soviet state. He pleaded guilty. Once in jail, however, he wrote an indignant appeal to the government - now run by the "grey blur" - and circulated a copy through the jail. Among other things, Sukhanov demanded that the GPU honor its promise "to release those willing to make untrue confessions." No one ever heard from him again...