Word: ever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 on the collapse of the government." Most Hungarians were simply scared. They...
...Catholic party bitterly resented such gerrymandering. "See that woman pushing her pram up the hill with two babies and bundles, and her pregnant?" asked a Londonderry Republican. "Those houses she's going to could have been put up down below on as level a piece of land as ever you saw, but it might have risked a Unionist majority, to put working-class Catholics in that district." He snorted. "So the poor woman has to climb the hill to save a Unionist vote...
Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre speculated on the wonderful possibilities of movies: "Sherwood Anderson once called himself a liar. That was his way of saying that he was a writer, and his lies have charmed us ever since his writings began to appear . . . But he lied with words only. What tempts today's writer for the screen is that he can lie with cinematic imagery...
Like almost all modern artists, Georges Braque was caught in the propeller of his fast-flying onetime friend Pablo Picasso. But in Braque's case it didn't hurt a bit. Last week the Cleveland Museum of Art was staging the biggest Braque show ever seen in the U.S.-114 pieces covering every phase of his career. Braque may not be the alltime great painter he is considered in Paris, but the Cleveland show gave ample evidence that he ranks with the finest alive...
...worth the price of admission to see McInnis play. A little over five feet eight inches in height and carrying about 150 pounds. Stuffy is the whole works around one of the greatest infields ever gotten together. He wears a uniform that has been through many a battle and his glove appears to the onlooker to be bigger than himself. He is always working. While his teammates are going to the bat he scampers around the coaching lines begging of them to connect with the ball. When his time arrives, he rushes to the bench, picks...