Word: givings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foes are aware of what goes on behind the scenes? Of horses that make more money than people, of the Hollywood horse operators who write a script a day. and of the Method cowboys? Who knows what agonies the hairy-chested prima donnas of horse opera suffer as they give birth to their roles? The riding, shooting, even walking lessons they must take; the continual risk of shooting off a sideburn? But the western story is not merely a tale that is told by television, full of sound and fury, signifying little. It traces back to a fantastically colorful period...
...talks continued behind a wall of privacy calculated to give the participants a chance to thresh out their problems without distractions. At least once a day, Ike's deadpanned Press Secretary Jim Hagerty and Macmillan's ebullient Pressman Peter Hope briefed newsmen at hectic conferences held in a Gettysburg gymnasium 25 miles away from Camp David. Reporters generally had to follow Hagerty and Hope to their hotel rooms for private briefings on what the other briefings had actually been about. Then they returned to the gymnasium for still more clarifying explanations-from each other. But gradually, despite...
...necessary, I will be the least democratic of all.'' The honorable members rapped their desks in well-bred applause, then began debating a drastic series of bills to slap down the blacks even harder. Among them: a "Preventive Detention Act" which for the next five years would give Rhodesian police the power to detain indefinitely suspected nationalists or anyone "likely to endanger the public safety." Under the act the police could issue detention orders without the approval of any court and the only appeal would be to a star chamber composed of five Rhodesian M.P.s...
...Nyasas," he insisted, "have been deceived by a people whom they had grown to regard as Christian and honest, and betrayed by a government which for 60 years they had relied upon as trustee and protector." Last July he returned home, after 40 years of self-imposed exile, to give battle...
...like? He said: They are like small children who have settled in a field which is not theirs. When the owners of the field come, they will say: Leave our field to us. They are completely naked in their presence, and so they will leave it to them and give them their field...