Word: clearers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scoops & Baffles. Liebman's actors, now TVeterans, have survived the harsh lights of early TV and, thanks to the new orthicon camera tube, which makes a clearer picture possible with less light, use little make-up and fewer aspirins...
...peacefully: this fact eased the sadness. The new Queen, young and popular, bore a proud name and the promise of a new era. In an age which prides itself on practicality, dismisses pomp as pretension, and regards royalty as an empty anachronism, the meaning of the Crown seemed suddenly clearer. Respect, earned and freely given, is its strength. Tyrants might demand but could not command loyalty so spontaneously offered. At a precarious moment in Britain's history, the passing of George VI and the accession of Elizabeth II strengthened the one tie that still binds the Commonwealth...
...mainly concern pacifist organizations operating in the early forties when pacifism did not automatically suggest communism, as it does today. Readers of the Philbrick series, most of whom have already blurred the distinction between pacifism and sedition, can hardly be expected to remember that the distinction existed in even clearer terms during the early forties. Those who were members of these groups may not have wished to overthrow the government then; they may not wish to overthrow it now, and they may not even be pacifists now. Despite all these possibilities, they will be associated with sedition by a large...
...made up his mind. Most of them agree that he doesn't want to run. Many think he is looking over the field of Democrats, searching for a strong candidate, but will run if he cannot find one. Others think he wants to wait until there is a clearer indication of who the Republican nominee will...
...more in the position of professors and judged more on their teaching ability than on "the results," if post-season games and tournaments are cut out, and if sports are relegated in every way possible to the status of an adjunct of education, then the atmosphere will be much clearer and healthier. There will still be cases, of course, where eager alumni provide funds secretly to put outstanding athletes into their alma maters, but short of a complete change in our standards of value, there is very little that can be done about that...