Word: clearer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the G.O.P. split on the McCarthy issue, there was no display of leadership from the White House. The 1954 election campaign had no clearer lesson than the dependence of the Republican Party on Eisenhower. But this fact has not been translated into party leadership. The fault was not wholly on the heads of Bill Knowland and his fellow senatorial "leaders...
Alastair Sim plays Inspector Poole, the man whose mysterious power drags the recognition of their own guilt from the reluctant people. Poole's mystic qualities are clearer when it becomes obvious that he is really the group's collective conscience. In this role, Sim is neither better nor worse than he has been in all his films that I have seen. In fact, his playing is most always the same from picture to picture, Sim being a sort of one man acting convention in the manner of such set characters as Charles Laughton and Robert Newton. He is always superb...
...Debate Council felt that debating the Rod China topic is not questioning a decision, but a free investigation of both sides of the Communist problem "for a clearer understanding of the issues involved...
...some very real accomplishments to its credit. Through functional agencies, such as the World Health Organization and UNESCO, it has achieved a degree of international co-operation never before seen on such a scale in peacetime. And even as a propaganda forum, it has at least given clearer focus to the problems that divide the world...
...foreground of the story whirled with contradictions, the background became clearer. Obviously, there was something very peculiar about the activities of ex-Chief Police Inspector Jean Dides. He had known about Baranés' access to defense secrets since May, even paid him $570 a month to stay in the Communist network. But, apparently, Dides was content to go on "watching" as the ring delivered crucial defense decisions and information of France's plight in Indo-China without lifting a finger to stop it. Why? What was he waiting...