Word: hides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman, a chubby little man with twinkling eyes, looked down from the plane's windows on to the red & gold of Spanish soil, stretching below like a scarred and, crisscrossed piece of hide. From the air the land looked peaceful. But its people were sullen, impoverished, embittered, under a Fascist dictatorship which had claimed that the Spanish Civil War was a crusade for the Roman Catholic Church...
...Young set out to defeat the ICC plan and thus save his own hide. Campaigner Young's battle cry: the plan is based on the "Dust Bowl" earnings of 1933-it must be changed. Charged tough, senior Bondholder Spokesman John Weiss Stedman: the-arguments are wholly fallacious . . . the proposals "are a tax-avoidance scheme...
...myth of the Japanese sniper is exploded by returning officers. They say that Japanese, snipers are an annoyance, little more. They hide excellently but their aim is poor. Sniping serves, however, to frighten men who will not deliberately ignore it. Japanese machine-gunners often set up their guns in a fixed position, and do not traverse and search. The result is that men in the line of Japs' fire can move aside and advance safely...
...after any treatment is taken, protozoa may hide out in tissues like the liver or spleen, pop up to plague a "cured" man months or years afterwards; and a patient who succeeds in becoming completely free of the parasites has no true immunity, is liable to reinfection if an infected mosquito bites him. And there are always some mosquitoes with malarial stomach ulcers threatening the human race in the tropics...
Miramova's and Leontovich's skillful acting helps to hide their wobbly playwriting, and Jed Harris' expert direction helps further. But a whole evening of temperament, even when it is spoofed, is pretty monotonous. When it is Russian temperament to boot, it becomes downright exhausting...