Word: gabrielic
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...improve matters by professing not to know that his State Department had just decided to recognize revolutionary Guatemala's hated enemy, Salvadoran Dictator Osmin Aguirre. But Ed Stettinius got what he was after, persuaded Guatemala's Foreign Minister Enrique Muñoz Meany and Finance Minister Gabriel Orellana Hijo to accompany him to Mexico City...
Pressure in the South. Far to the south, Major General Jean Joseph Gabriel Delattre de Tassigny's French First Army (including American divisions), closed a pincers, cutting the Colmar pocket in two. Of some 10,000 Germans, all that were left of the 25,000 originally in the pocket, many were locked in the circle, others were pinned against the Rhine, whose bridges were being hammered by Allied planes. Allied troops entered Colmar...
...farsighted Gabriel Cohen, a Belgrade shopkeeper, tied several thousand dinars into a neat package. Then he locked and shuttered his shop, and with his bundle of money under his arm, took a stroll to Belgrade's biggest cemetery. There he held a long conversation with a sexton. The money changed hands. The sexton led the way to a family-sized crypt, which Cohen entered. The crypt's massive door slammed, was locked from the outside. Shortly after, the Germans blitzed Belgrade, then took over what was left of the city...
...well-known spiritual. At the Kyrie, the theme of Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen invokes the mercy of the Lord, and at the Gloria, Go Down, Moses proclaims His glory. For the profession of faith at the Credo there is the theme of Blow Your Trumpet, Gabriel. At the Sanctus and Benedictus ("Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord") are the melo dies of Goin' Home and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, and at the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) the devout and placid music of Deep River...
...kidding is lost on the screen, but enough is left to carry the story. The fable itself, as scripted by Lewis Meltzer and Oscar Saul, is given new gentleness, meaning, sadness-the journalists are tougher, the scientists more cruel and smug. The use of Art Baker to play bleating Gabriel Heatter is a master stroke. But Alexander Hall's direction, less nimble than in Here Comes Mr. Jordan, fails to make these ingredients do more than crawl about. Almost never do they get up on their good points and dance...