Word: framed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Cole thumbed through the record, the patient eased his lanky frame on to the edge of a chair, cupped his chin in one hand and stared fixedly at his scuffed combat boots. The record showed that he was a good soldier: in eight months he had jumped from private to sergeant, had become a squad leader in combat. The psychiatrist looked up from the papers and asked softly: "Charlie, can you tell me what happened...
...toothless, white-haired 84-year-old Councilman Billy O'Brion afforded the meeting some rare advertising. "That section," he cried, "is well taken care of by yours truly. There are just a few windbags up there who want to explode. All these town meetings are a frame-up." After calling Portland's City Manager Lyman Moore and the rest of the council "a bunch of crooks," O'Brion announced that the meeting would have to get along without...
Trnka, an artist and sculptor in his own right, has used but two live actors. All the other parts are played by cleverly carved wooden figurines. Using animated cartoon technique, Trnka filmed each frame of the movie separately-taking as many as twenty shots for a simple movement of an arm. The production is in Nu-Agfa color, which lends a soft, warm tone to the action...
...Virginian described him in a letter: "Straight as an Indian, measuring 6 ft. 2 in. in his stockings, and weighing 175 Ibs.. . . His frame is padded with well-developed muscles, indicating great strength. His bones and joints are large ... A pleasing and benevolent tho a commanding countenance . . ." Impressive looking, but not obviously stamped with greatness...
...this frame of mind, they are easy victims of the West's worst enemies in the Middle East: Jerusalem's scheming Grand Mufti and the Communists. For some time the Reds and the Muftimen have been working together, each side thinking it could use the other's propaganda talents. The Mufti's influence was generally considered stronger (most Arabs deeply distrust Communism because of its atheistic teachings). But recently the Communists have scared the Mufti-and startled Western observers-with a surprising show of strength...