Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...games to one, then three games to two, they scrambled back twice to tie, won the deciding game 4-0 when the exhausted Red Wings simply ran out of steam. "We acted like champions," said Toronto Coach Punch Imlach, "and we played like champions." Anybody else would have been content to say that the best team finally...
...past which led to her attempted murder of Bernard. As the film crawls forward, it becomes clear that her husband eats too much too fast, has a lot of money, reads nothing but newspapers, shoots live animals, and above all, fears death only because he is so content. What else is there to do but poison...
...East Germany, the Artists' Association Congress broke up in disagreement over "problems of reshaping life in our society." The dissidents were led by Sculptor Fritz Cremer, a longtime Communist, who called for greater artistic freedom in choosing form and content, and aired the heretical notion that doubt is a positive element in artistic thinking. Party bosses immediately accused Cremer of "negating the unity of politics, economics and culture...
...existence of public opinion, the right to criticize, freedom of discussion and of honest in formation." This kind of progress the party did not need. In a reply, the government-sponsored weekly Kultura maintained that in Poland there is no place for books or plays "whose ideological or moral content is antisocialist." Siding firmly with Socrates' accusers, the magazine pointed out that freedoms have been curbed ever since the ancient Greeks-"and so it is with...
Surviving papers, Nazi or otherwise, lined up so meekly that Hitler himself complained: "It is no great pleasure to read 15 newspapers all having nearly the same textual content." Turning out such dupe sheets could have been no great pleasure either. Twice daily the Ministry of Propaganda sent every paper the Tagesparole, the word for the day, specifying content down to the headlines and the required epithets for Roosevelt ("gangster," "criminal," "madman"). Every level of government sent handouts accompanied by demands that they appear on Page...