Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year later, the college paper, in "Taking Stock of G. S." was worried that the new school was slipping away from its original and expressed function of adult education. Two important aspects of the "conflict" between G. S. and the college became the focus of criticism...
Apart from the changed format and the tampered ending, the movie suffers a letdown in British Actress Gertrude Lawrence's performance. She does a competent job, marred by some confusion of accents, and her versatility enables her to flit coquettishly through a soft-focus flashback recounting the fancied conquests of her youth. Yet she never gives the role the emotional tug or the full measure of addled humor that it had in the hands of the stage's late great Laurette Taylor...
This week the focus of U.N. activity shifts to the General Assembly in its fifth session in New York's Flushing Meadows Assembly hall. Here Russia's first objective is to get the Assembly to oust Chinese Nationalist representatives, replace them by Chinese Communists...
...soundproofed little White House broadcasting room, Harry Truman smiled a quick, reassuring smile toward Bess and Margaret. Then the President of the U.S. stepped up to the solitary rostrum in the glare of the floodlights, flipped open his loose-leaf notebook, and swam into the radio and television focus of the world...
...peeled off to the left and went roaring down at an angle of about 80 degrees. I seemed to be standing on my head. At 3,000 feet, the plane pulled out of the dive, leveled for a moment, then climbed steeply to the left. When my eyes would focus again, I could see a tower of brown, dirty smoke rising from the center of the marshaling yards. May said we had dropped two of our three 1,000-lb. bombs...