Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the Hungarian Communists continued what they called their "educational enlightenment" of the public, which tried to hammer home the point that Mindszenty was not only a traitor but a coward. There were some Hungarians who fell for the line. Others, who even refused to listen to the radio broadcasts of the trial, believed in Mindszenty more strongly than ever. Said a Catholic worker: "He is my priest. The government could not have strong enough reason to bring him into court." Said a middle-aged woman: "The Primate's greatest mistake was his wrong timing in speculating...
Playwright Noel Coward (Private Lives) arrived in Manhattan, took in a few Broadway shows, sailed away for his annual winter sunning in Jamaica...
Hitler at Sea. Through the battle of the Atlantic, the invasion of Norway, the preparations for the invasion of Britain, this mood persisted. Hitler told Raeder: "On land I am a hero, but at sea I am a coward." He consequently gave the admirals a freedom of action that the generals never had. Author Martienssen (a South African, who is assistant foreign editor of the Economist) believes that Raeder made the most of it, used his small forces effectively, and was individually superior to the run of German officers...
...just the old tried and true western cliches dressed up and put forth flawlessly. But in this case the result is a tremendous burlesque of all western epics, both serious and comic, with Bob Hope as the stalwart hero and Jane Russell as the prim heroine. Hope is a coward, and Miss Russell is hardly prim...
Surer of echoes in the American ear are certain voices of the more-distant prewar era (now making Bartlett for the first time): Joe Jacobs' "We wuz robbed" and "I should of stood in bed"; Mae West's "Come up and see me some time"; Noel Coward's "Mad dogs and Englishmen"; Henry Wallace's "Century of the common man"; Archibald MacLeish's "America is promises...