Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic votes for the Republicans. It drew them from districts populated by nationality groups of low income which had been sensitive to the Communist threat since before World War II. And because the task of controlling domestic Communists fell to the Attorney-General, Brownell's office automatically became the focus of public interest...
...special counsel, abruptly interrupted the Senator from Wisconsin and took over the questioning. In the next ten minutes, while McCarthy squirmed, scribbled, glared and tried to interrupt, Jenkins led Stevens through a sharp series of questions and answers that brought the Army's case back into clear focus after days of obfuscation...
...picnic is part of a slim social apparatus that holds together a group whose main focus is on individual work. The full Society meets together once a week for dinner in its quarters in Eliot House M-Entry. There, in a panelled dining room about a large horseshoe table, the twenty-four Junior Fellows, nine Senior Fellows, and guests sit down to a very full, informal meal by candle light--the candles set in silver sticks engraved with the names of the members...
...present focus of the Far Eastern situation is the Geneva Conference, opening next week. Mr. Anthony Eden, who will represent Britain, said recently: "I am going to Geneva determined to do my best to get a settlement in Korea and Indo-China, but I am going without any illusions about the kind of people the Chinese Communists...
...valid; the chief trouble is a kind of clash between form and content. By relying on a naturalistic method, the play comes to need the greater fullness and freedom of the novel. There are too many problems in The Magic - indeed, too many potential problem plays-for it to focus quite right, or reverberate enough on the stage. Thus, for lack of elbow room, the play has Grace, within minutes, faced with the loss of job, child and lover. The lover, having served his turn, is folded up and pushed out of sight like a card table. The naturalistic method...