Word: casts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frustration and exasperation, Minnesota's Walter Judd cried: "We are sitting here doing nothing and letting the world go to hell." But most Congressmen, sobered by the testimony, were no longer eager to cast a vote for the revision plan. Marshall and Austin, though deploring the tactics, were far from decrying the spirit. They asked for a resolution supporting the U.S.'s patient efforts to shore up the structure of U.N. "from within" through the Little Assembly, and restriction of the veto in peaceful settlements...
Nonetheless, South Koreans went to the polls this week. U.S. occupation authorities encouraged a big turnout by dropping don't-forget-to-vote leaflets from planes. Most were expected to cast their votes for the National Association for the Rapid Realization of Korean Independence of Dr. Syngman Rhee. His party stood for a unified Korea-but not for unification a la Pyongyang...
...first-night curtain went up half an hour late. Otherwise all was in perfect Broadway order: there was nothing to suggest that half the cast had barely set foot in the country, that none had slept in a bed for five nights...
...young flax and green wheat grow on the plain of Waterloo. In the midst of the battle monuments, which include a cast-iron British lion glowering toward the French frontier, a humble seller of ice-cream cones, Jean Boewet, last week spoke his mind...
...tone and unity as it has. Miss Bergman occasionally breaks loose with an eager bit of acting, but it is seldom persuasive. As an international tramp, she is as badly miscast as Boyer would be as an All-America fullback; and she is as tactlessly gowned as she is cast...