Word: grained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oats!," snorted cantankerous Dr. Johnson in his famed dictionary, "a grain which in England is generally given to horses...
Despite its high Hollywood gloss, the story is told with considerable honesty and understated force. It will therefore doubtless irritate both professional Southerners and professional champions of racial equality. Back to her native South goes a white-skinned Negro girl (Jeanne Grain), who has "passed" in the North while studying nursing. In her home town, she is first terrified, then furious, at the treatment she gets as a Negro. It is not long until she comes close to being robbed by a fellow Negro, and raped by white men. Torn between running back North to her white doctor fiance (William...
...movie concentrates so relentlessly on Pinky's personal anguish that it achieves a haunting character portrait. Acting the role with an un-greasepainted face, Jeanne Grain seems like a morbid, almost marbleized Sleeping Beauty, bewitched by her conflict. Director Elia (Gentleman's Agreement) Kazan underlines the impression by having her walk with a dreamy gait, usually against the wind. As Pinky's washerwoman grandmother, Ethel Waters gives a powerful performance...
...Associate Professor Alexander Gerschenkrop agrees that because of the trade barriers, devaluation's overall effect on the Soviet East will be "small for the time being." But he remarked that, although Russia theoretically has been always trying to wreck the Marshall Plan, in practice she has continuously been exporting grain to western Europe, and buying some production goods in return. "Perhaps in economic policy, Russia is not so interested in discouraging western trade as we suppose...
...inevitable comparisons between St. Laurent and King run to their political views and whether ex-Corporation Lawyer St. Laurent will go along with King's Liberal Party policy, which launched such welfare-state schemes as baby bonuses, government grain-marketing and producer subsidies. St. Laurent has already indicated he may not. He once said publicly that "no government of which I am a member will ever subsidize housing." During the election, when a group of Prince Edward Island fish canners came to ask for a subsidy, St. Laurent shocked his political advisers by turning them down flat. Said...