Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Safeguard. But the West had learned to give Soviet offers a wary welcome. After months of hard negotiations, a government for Western Germany was nearly a reality. Secretary of State Dean Acheson made it clear that the U.S. would not allow the Russians to talk Western Germany to death by delays; nor would it permit any German government to be hamstrung by re-establishment of a Russian veto. "The people of Western Germany may rest assured," said Acheson, "that this Government will agree to no general solution for Germany into which the basic safeguards and benefits of the existing Western...
...minimum, and the obvious enthusiasm of the cast--which sometimes, but infrequently, amounts to overplaying--carries the play along when exact meaning may be in doubt. A sense of timing, so important to the success of any farce, seems to be well nigh perfect, so that situations are always clear though subtleties be lost...
Give It Back to the Bahstads. Within a few minutes the Amethyst's captain was mortally wounded; the ship's doctor and pharmacist's mate were dead. Another hit demolished a rear turret. The Amethyst ran up two white flags in clear token of surrender. But the shelling continued. The stricken captain ordered Chief Boatswain's Mate David Heath and 59 others, including the wounded, to abandon ship. Some reached the south bank in the Amethyst's whaler, others swam. Once on the south shore, they crawled into Nationalist territory. Said Heath: "The Reds machine...
Brightest spot in this murky yarn is the clear, vigorous, imaginative camera work. There are beautiful shots of Havana's buildings rising like white frozen fountains at the end of receding alleys, and some brilliant bits on the revolution in full swing. There are also good performances by Jennifer Jones, David Bond, Gilbert Roland (as a calypso-crooning conspirator), and onetime silent-star Ramon Novarro (as a middle-aged plotter...
Cambridge has a long ordinance prohibiting street parking after 2 a.m. The Police Department at one time stated that this law was written "to keep way clear for fire equipment," but insulted firemen said they could move cars just as fast at night as any other time. This inter-service conflict was resolved by both departments hastily dropping their attempts to explain the law; they now identically state that "even if the regulation is ridiculous, a law is a law and we'll enforce...