Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stated that the Berlin Air Lift has so far been successful in maintaining our position in Europe, but pointed to the danger of the growing "Kremlin-controlled Communist Empire" in India and Asia. Churchill then warned again of the power of "these 13 men in the Kremlin," whose power he called "quite as wicked but in some ways more formidable than Hitler...
...lift the eating standards of the 20th Century Soviet people from stinking fish to somewhere near the standards of American sharecroppers, has been the achievement of Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan. In the '305 he visited the U.S., brought back to Russia the Eskimo...
...them is Producer-Director Mervyn LeRoy's success in bringing to life once more the faded sentiments and the tintyped situations. Another is June Allyson's playing of tomboy Jo. She has a refreshing breeziness and bounce which make the old tale believable and now & then lift it right out of its tatted frame. Other notable performances are Margaret O'Brien's delicate, peaked portrayal of ailing Beth, and the supporting work of veterans Mary Astor (Marmee), the late Sir C. Aubrey Smith and Lucille Watson. The whole package is so richly wrapped in romantic period...
Ivanov continued: "I committed everything knowingly . . . What inspired me to all this was fear-fear and faulty orientation regarding Communism ... It was my conviction that the Communist leaders must be suffocated and paralyzed . . . I expected the Communists to treat me severely, but they instead gave me this opportunity to lift the curtain...
...best overcome it. "In some countries, [they] are unrivaled as occasions in which to cultivate acquaintances. How many an interesting political connection was first conceived by a certain foreign head of a mission in a convulsive handshake in a funeral cortege and cemented by giving him a lift home in his car from the ceremony...