Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...telling the world that the Truman Doctrine meant imperialism and slavery. Even some French non-Communists thought that the Socialist dirigisme-the "directed economy"-would be lost by listening to advice from the U.S. (see cut). In Britain a large and vocal bloc in the British Labor Party urged Ernest Bevin to steer clear of dependence on the U.S. (see below...
Things began to come back. He was Ernest Steele-Ernest K. Steele. He had been fishing, then driving down Franklin Canyon Road on his way home. He guessed he had gone to sleep; he had a vague memory of terror, of feeling his car plunge through a fence and sail out into the gulley. He twisted on the hard ground until his back was raw and his wounded hand throbbed with pain. Then he thought of his wife, Mae, at home in Richmond, and he lay still and wept...
...House of Commons, M.P.s wept brotherly tears over the plight of Britain's free-enterprise system. "England is occupied country," said Social Crediter Ernest George Hansell. "A foreign way of life is there." Tory Member Lawrence Wilton Skey put in ditto marks and added: "We must now be ready ... to give them [by allowing immigration] the freedom which they will be denied at home...
...Radio exists," says Claude Ernest Hooper, "only in its statistics." There is every reason why he should say so: Hooper is Radio's No. 1 Statistician. On the basis of his reports, radio men hire & fire talent, buy & sell time, and set their watches...
This short, admirable novel about the French Resistance is written in a prose style which suggests that Author Wertenbaker is a refugee from the dictatorship of Ernest Hemingway. But if he ever suffered under that brilliant dictatorship, he is his own master now. He has fashioned an unobstreperous, supple instrument with which he can handle whatever he pleases. With deceptive quietness, he chooses to handle a good deal...