Word: hards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believing, we look on our nation's great wealth as more than a hard-earned resource to be used only for our own material good. If we can truly cooperate with other nations, especially our friends of the free world, we can first defeat the evils of hunger, privation and disease. Thus we can develop a healthier, more prosperous world, and in the process develop greater prosperity for ourselves...
...would gradually lead the Communist and non-Communist worlds to mutual understanding, 3) the repeated pledges of "peaceful coexistence" by Peking meant that Red China was worthy of joining the U.N. The national disillusionment was so great that even Prime Minister Nehru took off his rose-colored glasses, looked hard at his giant neighbor to the north, and told the Indian Parliament: "I doubt if there is any country in the world that cares less for peace than China today...
...addition, negation may arise from past disappointments, as a conditioned reflex. When Christianity is offered as "a huge and rosy simplicity, gallant promises either crumple up in the hard clutch of need, or become mockingly simple symbols of childhood as they retreat before the dawning ambiguity in the moral intelligence." The Christian story, said Sittler, has "a tough, penetrating, hard purpose whose theatre is the dark dreads, tormenting anxieties, and constructive demands of life...
...central situation from Gerold Frank's bestselling biography (TIME, Nov. 24, 1958) of Hollywood Gossipist Sheilah Graham, who was F. Scott Fitzgerald's girl friend during the last sad years of his life as a Hollywood hack. The book pretended, with some authority, to be the hard, straight stuff-novelist on the rocks. But Producer Jerry (The Best of Everything) Wald decided that the stuff was too strong for the customers he was after, and he attempted to water the old Fitzgerald down and sweeten it up. The result is one of those long, pale, fruity concoctions that...
...purrs back, looking as if she has just said something brilliant.) And scarcely a scene goes right for Director Henry (The Bravados) King. The principals stumble around in patent and sometimes comical confusion. Deborah Kerr is a fine, sensitive actress, but when she tries to play Sheilah as a hard-lipped careerist, she looks like a nice little girl about to say boo to a goose. Gregory Peck tries painfully hard to be Fitzgerald, but manages no more than a nightclub imitation of an intellectual...