Word: drawed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dobbins, a frequent baiter of labor bosses though an American Newspaper Guild member himself, quite plainly saw his own responsibility, sat down at his drawing board and, with his characteristic heavy-lined style ("I can't draw tiny lines-I'm six feet four"), once again exposed Jimmy in his bearskin (see cut). Said Dobbins. "I'm pleased that I scored-he seemed such a hard guy to penetrate with ridicule...
...insisted on immediate nationwide free elections and has rejected the federation concept. Its new plan, however, steps back from the traditional approach in several respects: elections are no longer immediate, but take place within thirty months; the East Germans will be in the minority on the commission to draw up an electoral law, but they will have a veto power...
From their Berlin vantage point, the Western powers confront the interior of the Communist world with a visible example of freedom in action. From Berlin, Western powers draw back their most accurate intelligence of what is going on in Eastern Europe. More important, Berlin constitutes the Soviet empire's greatest escape hatch. Through West Berlin every day there still pass some 250 East Germans-not just the aged and infirm, but the ablest and most vigorous citizens of an East German satellite crucial to Moscow's economic and political plans...
...nine major outbreaks of violence. Hero No. 1 (Fonda), a sort of Good Bad Guy, is a notorious gunman who wears gold-handled Colts. The townspeople of Warlock ask him to protect them from Villain No. 1 (Tom Drake), a Bad Bad Guy with a slow sneer, a fast draw, and plenty of sneaking dry-gulchers on his payroll. Unfortunately, Hero No. 1 refuses to take the job without his sidekick. Villain No. 2 (Quinn), a G.B.G. who turns out to be a B.B.G.-the sort of lowdown skunk that makes his girl friend keep him. So the scriptwriter rings...
...view of Veritas, glib liberalism gives aid and comfort to something more extreme: "socialism prepares the ground for communism." Though they draw a reluctant distinction between well-meaning, patriotic liberals and communist subversives, Veritas members insist that the first inexorably fosters the second. Veritas never accuses Schlesinger of direct subversion in writing Crisis of the Old Order, but it argues that his "socialistic" views unwittingly abet the communist conspiracy...