Word: building
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more & more of Europe's war talk also expressed hope. TIME'S Paris Bureau Chief André Laguerre reported: "Good can come out of that talk, for it can dissipate Europe's terror and engender the strength and courage which could prevent war. To build that strength and courage, Europe does need time. The Kremlin, by launching a sudden attack, has the power to refuse Europe the time it needs, and to cut short this period of Europe's moral regeneration. That is the risk. But it is a risk which more & more Western Europeans...
...Seattle, Promoter Larry Scheer pointed a finger mysteriously at unnamed wartime generals and admirals. "Somebody big didn't like boxing, so they didn't build it up. There should have been a mob of good fighters come out of the Army and Navy, but they didn't. It was all basketball, this last...
Things were pretty quiet last Sunday night in Denver. To build up a police-beat yarn, the tabloid Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News ran it under a 96-point Page One headline...
Remarks like that struck sparks from ABC's President Mark Woods, whose efforts to build network TV will give his company an insatiable appetite for films. The movies, said Woods, have nothing to fear from TV-if they hop on the bandwagon in time. That means turning out films especially for the living room at prices televisers can afford to pay. Then Woods blandly added what sounded like an ultimatum: "If the motion pictures are unwilling to enter this new industry on this basis, then my company is most certainly prepared...
...novelist, Giuseppe Berto has a lot to learn. He knows very little about how to pace a novel, how to build up climaxes and tighten tensions; he often touches the incongruous by putting much too mature speeches into the mouths of his babes. But most U.S. readers will find in The Sky Is Red, as in such recent Italian films as Open City and Shoe-Shine, a raw and brutal vitality that slicker performances often lack...