Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When it came to the vote, the Communists cast their ballots against the Government. But Ramadier won by a wide margin (360 for, 186 against, 63 abstentions). This was the obvious moment for the Communists to resign. They did not budge. Cried Ramadier: "You cannot enjoy the benefits of being in the opposition and stay in the Government at the same time -not while I am Premier." The Communists left it up to Ramadier to fire them...
...proposed student activities center garnered 53 percent of the nearly 2500 ballots cast, while a hockey rink and a scholarship fund received 18 and 16 percent respectively...
Allegretti, too, got some and only some of his part. He played it for humor--and he got just that. Credit must not be denied Allegretti for the laughs at which he aimed: he got them, acting, indeed, with more skill than anyone else in the cast if also with more mugging and audience-facing. But his comedy was of an almost slapstick variety at times, never fulfilling its tragic implications for his family and his country, his style ranging as far as bombast toward the middle of the last act and mawkishness toward the close...
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...hero of The Vixens is lean and hard; he moves with controlled grace, and he says everything softly. The girl is slim and golden, her mouth is a splash (some times a slash) of scarlet, and her perfume is faint, elusive. These two daydreams, so happily cast on any Hollywood lot or in any adolescent's bedroom, are naturally not to be frustrated by a lot of gunplay and dastardy in post-Civil War New Or leans...