Word: contrivedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The time was the mid-1930s. It was a period of global Depressions unequaled before or since, and of the rise of both Fascism and Communism in Europe and militarism in my own country. I had already spent some time as a youthful observer in Germany and the Soviet Union...
Perle, 34, who has been working for Jackson since 1969, has a special concern for Soviet dissidents and Jewish émigrés. Along with Jackson, he contrived the 1974 trade bill amendment that tied most-favored-nation status with emigration from Russia-which infuriated Moscow as "unacceptable" interference in...
Present Laughter is a light drawing room comedy, very proper and very British, much in the tradition of Oscar Wilde. As in the majority of Coward's plays, the plot is thin and somewhat contrived. The action transpires in the studio of star actor Garry Essendine, revolving around the amorous...
A third marriage of eight years, beginning about 1949, is claimed by Actress Terry Moore. She says that Hughes contrived to meet her after seeing her in a film. "He couldn't take his eyes off me," she recalls. "It was terrifying. He was an old man of 43...
In the final minute, both men jacked up the cadence once more. On the last drive, the counter clicked. Fellow oarsmen with contrived nonchalance sidled up to each counter to compare the scores.