Word: closed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then came the grandstand play. The Russians decided to close all their consulates in the U.S. and to deny the U.S. the privilege of consular representation in the U.S.S.R...
...conditions as comparable in strain to the loneliness and frustration on a lightship, changed the consulate's staff every six months to be sure nobody buckled under. Consul Lyon, married in the U.S. last June, had assumed his post but two days before the order came to close...
Chambers was asked what motive he could have for accusing Hiss of being a Communist. Chambers' voice was close to breaking, and some of his listeners thought that he was close to tears as he answered: "The story has spread that ... I am working out some old grudge or motives of revenge or hatred. I do not hate Mr. Hiss. We were close friends, but we are caught in a tragedy of history. Mr. Hiss represents the concealed enemy against which we are all fighting, and I am fighting. I have testified against him with remorse and pity...
Grandma's studio is her bedroom. It has a wood stove for winter weather. "I look out the window sometimes," she says, "to see the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene." She never paints from nature "because it's easier...
...Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff has brilliantly adapted movie techniques to cartooning. Caniff moves around the scenes he invents as restlessly as a camera under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock, intercutting panoramic long shots with close-ups of action and expression. He stays well ahead of a host of imitators...