Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...satellites. At the party conference called to agree on the new line, Premier Otto Grotewohl won the big cheers by criticizing Minister of Justice Hilde ("Hanging Hilde") Benjamin for failing to safeguard citizens' rights. Red China finally broke its silence about the disgrace of Stalin, and broadcast without comment Pravda's first cautious editorial...
...Your comment on Jordan gave a onesided impression of the position. British policies are both unfair and narrow-minded from the Arab point of view. Glubb's sacking has been greatly overpublicized...
...early winter, when Estes Kefauver announced his candidacy, few politicians or political reporters were listening carefully enough to catch the threat in his tone. To almost every question, the Tennessee Senator's answer was a capsule of political skill, and his comment about the Minnesota primary was perhaps the best of all. Would he go into Minnesota, asked a reporter, and face Adlai Stevenson...
Unlike his predecessors, Ike rarely invokes a flat "no comment." More often, in declining to answer a question, he adds, "but I will say this-," thereby usually giving the newsmen something they can print. The President's growing confidence led to broadcasting the sessions on radio and TV from film and tape, thus putting the President's words to the press on public record in direct quotes for the first time. While Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty reserved the right to snip pieces out of the tape or film, he has rarely used...
...vaudeville boards at 17 as one of the most inept jugglers in history, became a comic after serving in World War I, starred in Broadway musicals through the '203. His radio career was highlighted by a longtime "feud" with Jack Benny and his life illumined with mordant comment on the American scene. Allen on Hollywood: "California is a wonderful place to live-if you're an orange"; on broadcasting: "The scales have not been invented fine enough to weigh the grain of sincerity in radio"; on studio audiences: "When I look at them, I think there must...