Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Giuseppe Sotgiu, 52, once a poor but very clever lad from Sardinia, had worked his way through school and taken a degree in jurisprudence with the highest honors. A onetime Socialist newspaperman and then a law professor, he emerged as a Communist lawyer after Mussolini's downfall, much honored for his anti-Fascist record. It was he who acted as defense counsel for the journalist who first published the allegation that Wilma Montesi had been murdered. At that time Giuseppe Sotgiu indignantly declaimed: "This Montesi case stigmatizes a whole putrid and corrupted society, a privileged class which is perverse...
...Brown game in his junior year, MacKinney suffered a leg injury, making him a doubtful participant in the Yale contest. The trainers at Dillon worked overtime to enable him to play, but he appeared in New Haven on crutches the day before the game. The crutches were a clever device of Coach Dick Harlow to fool Yale, however, for MacKinney was physically fit and instrumental in the 28-0 rout of the Elis...
...Minh?" an anti-Communist Vietnamese was asked. "Oh yes," the Vietnamese replied, quickening involuntarily. "He is the living example of a revolutionary. He has a blameless private life. He dresses simply. He is intelligent. He speaks French, Russian, English, Chinese and Vietnamese. He is very clever: when he speaks to the people he is direct so that an eight-year-old child can understand. He has infinite patience. He has sacrificed his own life completely for the revolution." Jawaharlal Nehru adds: "Extraordinarily likable and friendly ... a man of integrity desiring peace." And an American, who worked with Ho against...
...efforts to legitimize his military coup of March 1952, Batista had waged a surprisingly energetic campaign. All in all, it was a clever one, too, and some observers thought Batista could beat Grau fair and square...
...Japanese audiences, he decided, the romance of French movies would not do, nor would the sexiness of Italian films. "Unfortunately," says Nagata, "we don't have the bosoms, and even if we did, the kimono would hide them." Nagata's formula: a typically Oriental story, plus clever camera work. Rashomon, which has so far grossed $310,000 in the U.S., was the first result; Ugetsu was the second...