Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blood. Unlike them, Abraham L. Pomerantz, Gubichev's lawyer, battled hard for his client. The substance of his defense: the stolid Russian, a $6,050-a-year engineer for the U.N., had not kept his Manhattan trysts with Judy to receive state secrets from her, but only to express his "hot-blooded" love. But when the jury came in, after 19 hours and 10 minutes, its foreman announced that the verdict for both defendants was: "Guilty...
What I tried to express was my belief that not all Czech music is great music. As a Czech, I could hardly dismiss such composers as Smetana, Dvorak, Janacek and Martinu...
Clement Attlee's new cabinet was scarcely 24 hours old before one of its members was under heavy attack from Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard and his morning Daily Express. The object of Beaverbrook's wrath was bright, balding John Strachey, 48, whom Attlee had just promoted from Minister of Food to Secretary of State for War. The Standard called Strachey "an avowed Communist [who] has never publicly retracted his belief in Communism." The attack touched an exposed nerve: the British public has been shocked by the laxity of military intelligence services disclosed by the espionage...
...Wells. But the dancers were "more electric," "more rhythmic," and "less inhibited' for some of the Rimbauderies he had in mind. Says Ashton in what was obviously meant to be a compliment: "You have to pull such actions and gestures out of our dancers; yours understand immediately and express them easily...
...stop his negotiations. He told his friend, Mexico's Archbishop Luis María Martinez, about the threats, begged the archbishop to say a funeral mass for him if he were killed. He also wrote to a friend in Spain, asked him to send a pistol by air express. It did not arrive in time...