Word: boredly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appalling Accusations. The "other side" took the form of eleven interoffice memos, purported to have been written in the last six months by McCarthy or Cohn or the subcommittee's executive director, Francis Carr. Several memos bore the same dates as entries in the Army's report. For example, on January 14, the day the Army said Cohn promised to "wreck the Army" if Schine were sent overseas, a "Roy Cohn" memo to "Senator McCarthy" said: "John Adams has been in the office again. He said that if we keep on with the hearings on the Army...
...years as a Marine aviator, Colonel Frank Schwable (rhymes with able) had demonstrated time and again that he was a brave, cool and efficient fighting man. As he took the stand before a court of inquiry at Arlington, Va. last week, the ribbons on his tunic bore testimony to an honorable career as a regular-as a pilot in Nicaragua, as combat commander of a nightfighter squadron in World War II, as chief of staff of the First Marine Aircraft Wing during the Korean war. But all this simply complicated the dreadful dilemma of the high-ranking officers...
...unconscionable amount of talk that sounds much more like writing, and of love-making that seems written by rote. Despite a lively and accomplished performance by Cedric Hardwicke as the Prime Minister and about 15 minutes of good, vulgar, second-act suspense, The Burning Glass is a high-toned bore...
...week, to adjudge the balance between the settlers' anxiety, the campaign's necessity, and the black man's historic emergence in Africa, flew Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton. It was Lyttelton's third visit to Kenya in 16 months, and the war's latest statistics bore out his concern. Six thousand British, 44,000 African troops, police and home guards are now deployed against some 14,000 Mau Mau and their supporters. The war costs more than twice as much ($1,800,000 a month) this year as last. In Kenya, the moderates among...
...Foreign Ministers met in the very room in the massive onetime Hohenzollern palace where the generals who tried to assassinate Hitler in 1944 were sentenced to hang on butcher's meathooks until dead. The ceiling above them bore a garish painting of the Last Judgment with a direful Gabriel blowing a gilded trumpet...