Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saxony. They carry the pitchblende to the surface in crude buckets attached to winches. In one shaft workers must climb up & down a 500-ft. ladder. The whole area is under heavy guard. Once in the mine area, even volunteer miners may not leave. The pitchblende is flown direct from Saxony to the Soviet Union...
Judge & jury decided that it was not yet up to moviemakers to decide who should review their films, and how. Awarding Critic Robertson $6,000 damages, the court gave M-G-M a brief lecture. A critic, said the court, "surely is to direct us to what is worth our while to see and to escape that which is unworthy of notice. I sometimes wonder whether the cinema public gets what it wants. It seems to get what is shoveled...
Although all the witnesses testified that large guerilla bands had entered Greece from Albania, there was no direct testimony that an international brigade was involved...
...bill. All employees in "sensitive" areas have been checked and surveyed till one wonders why they are allowed to mate, since their children may through some idealogical mutation prove subversive. And since the State, Army, and other security-involved departments are screened, then verified by the FBI, the main direct threats are already taken care...
...chosen people (which they believe themselves to be), the Mormons think they have a direct line of communication to the Almighty. In the church's turbulent early years its leaders were able to report direct and literal heavenly guidance on even such mundane subjects as Illinois real estate. But a divine revelation in 1947 would amaze no man more than Mormonism's tall, white-bearded, 77-year-old President George Albert Smith, seventh successor to the prophet Joseph Smith, and the mortal instrument through which a heavenly message would be received...