Word: cloak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Artists) is splendidly foreign, with its excellent color shots of the Riviera, Vienna and Sweden, but it is no more intriguing than a deciphered cryptogram reading "See Europe this year," or "Having a wonderful spy. Wish you were her." TV's Producer-Writer-Director Reynolds has concocted a cloak-and-dagger stew from his TV program of the same name, tossed sleepy-eyed Robert Mitchum into the cauldron and trusted that the simmering will wake him up. It does not. Mitchum yawningly tangles with a Babel of exotic accents, negligently disposes of spies, counterspies, a treacherous brunette (Genevieve Page...
...grey-haired Mama Miller and her balding husband Isidore sat on the porch and talked about "the children." "I made a chicken," fretted Mama, a Brooklyn housewife. "I wish I knew whether they're coming home, so I would know how much potatoes to make." Papa, a retired cloak-and-suiter, consoled her: "Don't worry. I don't think they've forgotten us." At 9:30 p.m., the children returned to Roxbury. To nobody's surprise, Pulitzer Prizewinning Playwright Arthur (Death of a Salesman) Miller, 40, and Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, 30, had slipped across...
...court cases, although cases still in progress must be fought vigorously and new victims defended. But now, while there is a lull, for whatever reason, in the attack on academic freedom, major attention should be turned to securing the repeal and withdrawal of restrictive statutes and regulations, the cloak of due process under which the attackers of academic freedom operate. The best way to achieve this would seem to be for liberals to develop and state clearly the meanings and implications of "academic freedom," in the hope that a wider understanding will develop, capable of withstanding any resurgence of these...
...times since World War II the good women of Japan have tried to strip the cloak of legal protection from the backs of their scarlet sisters...
...sides. He even potshotted the U.S. The rebels, he said, recognizing "they cannot possibly win by military action," are now falling back on the hope that "international opinion or action by foreign countries" will impose a solution on France. He denied a visa to the A.F.L.C.I.O. cloak-and-daggering European representative. Irving Brown. Said Lacoste: "Under pretext of trade unionism. Brown conducts adventurous activity with doubtful personages, showing the greatest contempt for the interests and position of France in Algeria." To keep a balance of sorts, he simultaneously ordered the expulsion of two of the more fanatic French colon leaders...