Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already incurred the Navy's rage for assailing its theories of strategic bombing, had drawn down on himself the wrath of the ground forces. At the end of the week he was a little rueful, feeling that he had overreached himself. He had certainly made it clear that the ideas of the armed services had not been "merged...
...campaigner he is indefatigable, impresses audiences with his friendliness and his erect bearing. No phrasemaker, his speeches are short, well-organized and delivered in a loud clear voice. He always asks for questions, repeats each question word for word before answering it. As soon as he finishes, he jumps for the door, shakes every hand he can reach. To prepare himself for the 1948 campaign, he made a nine-week, 16-country trip to Europe, interviewed Stalin, Attlee, Rama-dier, Benes, De Gasperi and the Pope...
...know that dictatorship can be beaten only by meeting it before it begins. That is why we are willing to risk everything today .. . But we solemnly warn every democratic citizen of the free world of the urgency of this moment when he must make a good and a clear decision. Otherwise, Berlin will be lost, with only a diplomatic protest as an after-echo." (At the end, the Russian officer is angrily rocking the empty chair beside him back & forth-as if with difficulty repressing an impulse to throw...
...fear, awe, love and respect with which his own musicians now regard him. From Verdi, he got most of his ideas and ideals of conducting. Verdi, like most composers, was outspoken against conductors who felt they had to "interpret" (i.e., change) his music. Said he: "My manuscripts are clear enough, but I have practically never heard my works interpreted as I imagined them...
Lord Beaverbrook is Britain's most brilliant newspaper publisher. His principal paper, the Daily Express (circ. 3,850,000), is the largest in the world. Brief, colorful, clear, the Express is also, technically, one of the best newspapers in the world. Its editorial opinions are no wiser or more enlightened than Beaver-brook's own: the paper is his mouthpiece...