Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...graduated from the gutter give convincing performances in the romantic leads. And Thomas Mitchell does as fine a job with his role of the universal friend in need as Eddie Dowling did in the almost identical role in "Time of Your Life." The plot revolves around an attempt to exploit the exploiters by winning from the runners of a dishonest poker game enough to keep an embezzling clerk from committing suicide. Though he let things slow down a bit too much in spots. Director Ben Hecht has here found the ideal substitute for standard boy meets girl second feature...
...mediate. Before either Thailand or Indo-China could present a claim or grievance, Japan handed both a bill for her services as mediator - to be paid in advance. She demanded: a virtual monopoly over Indo-China's production of rice, rubber and coal; a free hand to exploit Indo-China's natural resources; military garrisons along the Chinese frontier; Japanese inspectors at all Indo-Chinese customs houses ; a naval base at strategic Camranh Bay and defense concessions at Saigon; air bases throughout Indo-China. From Thailand she demanded a naval base in the Gulf of Siam...
Last week the Guard, possibly urged on by British or Russian agents provocateurs, broke loose. Still sobbing for breath after last year's man-&-heaven-made catastrophes, but with an infinite capacity for ever-new violence, Rumania plunged into another bloody exploit. The final push came from the gun of a mysterious Greek assassin named Dimitrius Sarando-whom Berlin described as carrying a Turkish passport, U. S. money, U. S. and British letters, and operating under British Secret Service orders. He killed a German General Staff officer, Major Döring...
Hyperion was the 35th British destroyer lost outright since the war began. The irony of her loss was that her biggest exploit was catching up, off the Virginia coast one cold day a little more than a year ago, with the German liner Columbus. She, too, was sunk...
...vehemence with which they denounced legalized adultery [i.e., divorce and remarriage]. But one was easy and the other was not. To upset legalized cheating, the church must tackle the Government in its very stronghold; while to cope with intellectual corruption she will have to affront all those who exploit it-the politician, the press, and the more influential part of her own congregations. Therefore, she will acquiesce in a definition of morality so one-sided that it has deformed the very meaning of the word to sexual offences. And yet, if every man living were to sleep in his neighbor...