Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Killers. Hemingway's short story blown up into a complex plot of thievery, violence and doublecross (TIME, Sept...
...only six weeks (TIME, July 8) 55-year-old General Littlejohn has used his vast energy to clean house. Regulations were often too complex to understand. WAA was months behind in its paper work. Inventories were inaccurate and out-of-date. Littlejohn promptly called in all WAA directors and representatives for a three-day what-is-wrong conference. Result was the tabulation of 120 problems the organization had inherited. The General gave his staff a month to correct them. And property began to move faster...
...straight adventure the picture is good. Paramount's standard conception of a mad seacaptain becomes something very far from stock in Howard da Silva's fine, complex, pent-up performance. William Bendix is real and frightening as his brutal and devoted first mate, and Brian Donlevy is resolute and sympathetic whenever he has a chance. Alan Ladd suffers, fights and makes up to womankind with his usual chilly proficiency and Barry Fitzgerald scuttles obscurely around in the galley, making all he can of his few lines...
...dinner, an estimate of the principals present and finally (and mainly) a series of bitter reflections on U.S. foreign policy. For that night Adamic decided that the Prime Minister would never accept the Adamic Plan-Two-Way Passage-or anything resembling it. The Churchill expression "was one of complex annoyance. ... He hadn't liked it at all. I was a bloody nuisance dragged in by F.D.R. and he had had to put up with me. This was implicit in his manner, integral with his whole personality. ... He muttered something I did not understand. His half-closed eyes squinted...
France faces a complex problem, which in turn has its bases in many factors including French manpower losses in the two wars, the prolonged German occupation, and the Latin temperament. The latter factor in large part contributes to the French failure to set up a long range, planned program of recovery calling for patience and deliberation along British lines. The difference is obvious in the conversation of the people. In England one talks about the difficulty of obtaining enough with the limited ration coupons allowed the individual. In France, one talks about the difficulty in obtaining enough money...