Word: forming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a point of view of his own. By next month Salvatore would be the only private tenant left on U.N.'s rubble-covered property. His establishment was tucked in a corner of the site, overlooking the East River: two cinder-packed bocce courts (bocce is the Italian form of outdoor bowling), surrounded by knee-high board fences. Salvatore's customers were mostly shirt-sleeved, elderly men. When they were not playing they sat on orange crates and empty nail kegs, playing cards...
...attacks that followed from the benches of the Left & Right sounded somewhat faint. Their thunder had been stolen two days before by General Charles de Gaulle. He had unloosed a jeremiad denouncing Bidault and offering to form a new government ("I myself am ready"). The London agreement he flayed as foreshadowing the creation of two conflicting German governments and a war for which France was unprepared. He called for renewed negotiations with the U.S. and Great Britain, and failing this, demanded that France go her own way alone. "We are on the edge of an abyss," he cried...
...event, the movement's leaders have now given concrete form to the earlier primitive mysticism. To boost their new party in the overcrowded upland states, they war on the ejido (communal land) politicos who often tyrannize the lives of the farmers; they promise the farmers absolute title to their little plots of ejido land. They also incite their fanatical followers to demonstrate against the smalltime grafting political bosses who rule many a village and town. In Leon, Tapachula and Oaxaca such demonstrations led to street fighting and the death of Sinarquistas. When, over the past 18 months, the Aleman...
Schnabel had divided his score into conventional bars, but only as a concession to form. Said he: "I hate bars . . . [they] are like policemen's batons that strike down horribly, horribly. We must do away with them." He likes his melodies to "flow with no barriers, like the sea." He had composed his symphony ten years ago in the Swiss mountains, and likes to think of it as "glacial." But, he warned, "Do not try to understand it. Just feel...
...bill also provides that the U.S. is in no way to be committed to any legislative program approved by WHO. Harness explained the congressional suspicion: "We're in there with Great Britain, Russia, Yugoslavia, Rumania and Hungary. All have some form of socialized medicine or compulsory health insurance...