Word: clearers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ousted Czech Vice Premier Rudolf Slansky is still awaiting trial in Prague for crimes vaguely described as "activities against the state." Last week a clearer picture of the crimes, and of a growing Communist crusade, emerged from a speech made by Communist Premier Antonin Zapotocky. The speech, an appeal to national pride which might have stemmed from Adolf Hitler, was a bitter attack on "Jewish capitalism" and "interference from Jerusalem." Slansky, like several of the victims of Czechoslovakia's current party purge, is a Jew. Therefore, he is, in the favorite word the Commies use to denounce Jews...
When he graduated at 25, Pardue went back to Chicago, became chaplain of the Cook County juvenile court, the morgue and the insane asylum, and assistant chaplain of the county jail. In 1926 he got his first parish, at Hibbing, Minn., and a clearer notion of his life work. The Episcopal church at Hibbing, he found, paid plenty of attention "to the respectable people in the community, but they didn't think very much about the people who lived in the tar-paper shacks...
...dramatic fire and intensity. In reducing Verdi's tortuously complicated, four-act opera to 52 minutes of dance, she "left out enough good music and plot to make three more ballets," but made the story of a gypsy out to avenge the burning of her mother compellingly clearer...
...administrator, a prominent citizen of the Jewish community, Finkelstein was bound to come to grips with Zionism. As a student, he had been attracted by it. But as he grew older, and the political preoccupations of the movement became clearer to him, his zeal for the establishment of a Jewish state began to cool...
...President's intentions would be clearer if we could know which word he emphasized. Different meanings might be drawn from: IT wasn't my hat; it WASN'T my hat; it wasn't MY hat; or it wasn...