Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incident, said U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen, "is in such flagrant contradiction of the facts that I am sure the Soviet Foreign Ministry will wish to change it." Even after a personal call from Bohlen, however, Foreign Minister Molotov showed no such disposition. Molotov in fact seemed eager to exploit the matter, in marked contrast to a recent hushed-up but far more serious, affair involving two British embassy employees who beat up a couple of Russian policemen, but were allowed to leave the country without fuss...
...strong points (named Len Oniskey) and weaknesses. The scouting reports and Marsh's exceptionally fine play-calling allowed the Crimson to exploit the weaknesses to the fullest. One can only wonder why the Big Red, with a very slick passer in Bill De Graaf, and with no openings through the middle, did not pass more...
...same time that Anthony Eden made Britain's commitment toward German sovereignty and rearmament, Britain's most reckless statesman made a last-ditch effort to exploit the fears and emotions aroused by that issue. Aneurin Bevan did not conceal his purpose: to wrest the Labor Party's leadership from the temperate hands of Clement Attlee...
Byron from Brooklyn. One like Brando, as a matter of fact, is more than Hollywood has been able to handle, or even figure out. The big studios, which are capable of taking endless pains to exploit either a valuable property or an eccentric personality, have not yet been able to answer the basic question: What is Brando, and what does he have that the U.S. public seems to want more...
...preached Methodist Pastor Ralph W. Sockman to his Christ Church congregation on Manhattan's Park Avenue, "seems to have become the vogue in America. Church attendance is up. Church membership is growing faster than our population. Church finances are nourishing." But, he warned, this can lead to the exploitation of religion by politics, business and other interests. "Even the pulpit could be used to exploit religion rather than to explore it and expound it. We must be on guard against the tendency to use godly labels for products that are not really...