Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...written another statement, he told Mrs. Roosevelt, and he would like her to read it before it was released. "In the midst of the great confusion and the many regrettable misunderstandings and misinterpretations," he wanted to make the Roman Catholic position clear. This time the sting and heat of his early manner was gone...
...Roosevelt found that "a clarifying and fair statement." In an accompanying statement of her own, which the Cardinal's office in Manhattan also released, she said she found it reassuring to be told that the Cardinal was asking only for "auxiliary services," a position he had not made clear in his earlier, broadside attacks on the Barden Bill. "I again wish to reiterate," she concluded, "that I have no anti-Roman Catholic bias. I am firm in my belief that there shall be no pressure brought to bear by any church against the proper operations of the government...
...weeks ago, to clear itself of the charge, the company made the cattlemen an offer: "We will either stop making rain altogether or try to make rain over your part of the valley, as you choose." The cattlemen chose rain. Last week Pilot Silverthorne gave it to them. Spotting a likely cloud, he hopped into his Lockheed Lodestar, let go with a single Dry Ice pellet fired from a Very pistol. Within three hours, an inch and a half of rain had turned San Pedro's dusty streets into bogs. Bragged Texan Silverthorne: "Say the word...
Neither marriage nor motherhood could save her. In her husband (Van Heflin), a dull-witted country doctor, Emma discovers an ideal cuckold. Thereafter her course is clear: the well-beaten path from boredom to eroticism to ruin. When she learns at last that her lovers-a handsome philandering landowner (Louis Jourdan) and a petty law clerk (Christopher Kent) -are only men of clay, when she has lost the love of her child and squandered the family fortune, Emma takes the bitter way out: arsenic, agony and death...
...soil 300 years ago." Lutherans did not seek federal aid to education, declared Dr. John W. Behnken, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the most conservative of the large Lutheran groups.* Even if the Government should offer help to private schools, Dr. Behnken said, "there must be a clear understanding that no Government assistance can be given to support the instructional program of church schools. If there is no such understanding, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod would consider it very unwise to accept any aid from the Government...