Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theme of Hate. Whatever qualms he might have had about demagoguery, Wallace responded by reading one of the bitterest speeches he has yet delivered. He ad-libbed at the start: "We condone neither German stoning nor Russian shooting"-which brought forth mild applause. Then he launched into his main theme...
...grandfather was a high official under the Manchus, her father a playboy who spent most of his money before he died. Her widowed mother taught school and, embittered, drifted into the Party. Giving her own reasons for following her mother, Ting said: "I was afraid of party discipline. My main motive was to be a heroine and famous all over the world...
...spot where Gaitán fell, on the sidewalk of Bogota's bustling main street, citizens have mounted a framed scroll on a crude, flag-draped platform...
Block in the Dark. The main trouble is that Miss Stead has chosen to write about the most loathsome and amoral characters that can be dredged up from the cocktail bars and brokerage houses of New York. She makes her scoundrelly Wall Street speculators and their women seem so real, and lets them speak for themselves at such length, that the reader has but one desire: to get away from them. By ruthlessly eliminating any suggestion of decency or honor in her money-crazed and lecherous characters, Miss Stead deprives herself of all possibilities for moral contrasts and dramatic conflicts...
...closed in Frankfurt's Rhine-Main Airport one night last week; the administration building's lights could not be seen across the field. Near the runway, in a red and white checkered trailer, three G.I. technicians bent over their separate receivers-Search Scope, Middle Scope, Final Scope...