Word: guaranteeeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Condemned book-burning: "Resolved, That the freedom to read is a corollary of the constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press, and American lawyers should oppose efforts to restrict it."
Pathos & Dignity. When the movie princess escapes, on impulse, from dull routine and is found, drunk on a sedative, by Reporter Gregory Peck on a bench in a Roman park, Audrey makes her helplessness absolutely winning by her quiet assumption that Peck will tend to her needs just as her...
The press would have liked to withhold judgment until it saw a more dignified number, but got caught up in the enthusiasm. "Rabovsky," wrote the Times critic, "had a ballon [ballet talk for the ability to remain in the air during jumps] that would have ensured any rubber ball a...
¶ For publicly or cooperatively owned utilities, a guarantee that they will get first chance to buy Government generated power (but private companies would not be strong-armed out of the way).
False Security. In Providence, R.I., twice arrested and released when detectives mistook him for a murder suspect, Calvin Coolidge Corl, 28, indignantly demanded a guarantee that he would not be picked up again, but was promptly locked up after police queried his home town, learned that he was wanted for...