Word: displaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everyone had carefully refrained so far from inviting UNO's Atomic Energy Commission to the forthcoming test at Bikini. Army & Navy preparations for that provocative display of power went on apace...
Fatigue of Defeat. Amid the worries over bread, political maneuvers continued. The Communists were still pressing for fusion with the Socialists despite a Socialist rank-&-file revolt. But the mass of Germans paid far more attention to the food crisis than to politics. True, some began to display a mixture of old arrogance and new bitterness which might one day become the mental pattern for many of their fellow Germans. But most of them were too wearied by the extraordinary efforts of living to spend any effort on political thought and action. Germans used up their energies lugging in logs...
Menuhin has often been accused of stylizing his performance to provide a better display of his virtuoso technique, but here no such criticism can be offered, for his presentation contains the proper lyric and melodic qualities without the affectation which detracted from his playing of the late Mozart sonatas...
Hatry, now 56, rose from a West End clerkship to control of the Commercial Bank of London after World War I. Soon there was an un-British display of Hatry wealth: ornate bathrooms for his office suite, a swimming pool in his Mayfair home, a yacht, a racing stable. In 1924, his bank failed...
Eager anthropologists have snatched some from the flames and last week a few of them were on display in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. For its big midwinter show, the Museum-which often baffles outlanders by its cultist concern with the ultramodern descendants of Dada-put on an excellent exhibition which may baffle them more: 400 strange South Sea objects ranging from hand-painted skulls and intricately carved canoes to an immense stone head...