Word: means
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more. The tail no longer wags the dog." He boasted that the Democrats had won the election "without New York, without the industrial East and without the Solid South. And I am prouder of that than anything that ever happened to me." He added: "That doesn't mean that we are not inviting the industrial East and the Solid South and all the rest of the country to join the party of the people...
...Labor slogan was "retrenchment." It would mean a halt to further expansion and perhaps a cutback in social services, wage freezing and other painful economic measures, all designed to strengthen British competitive power in the dollar market. What retrenchment really added up to was an attempt to inject a strong dose of competition and incentive into an increasingly security-minded Britain...
...stretch-running threat of RCA might mean the loss of nine years' work and $3,500,000 in color research. But CBS President Frank Stanton rallied gamely. It is important, said Stanton, "to have color TV come quickly by the best available system . . ." Looking ahead to this month's important hearings before FCC, he added: "CBS color TV has been proved through numerous tests and demonstrations . . . We will look forward to studying similar tests and demonstrations of the latest RCA system...
...Express agreed: "[The playgoers] were . . . absorbed in laughing at his agile wit and trying to puzzle out just what he was getting at. The cast shared their bewilderment. At the end of the dress rehearsal, some of them were saying: 'Beautiful words, but what do some of them mean?'" By week's end, it seemed a good bet that West End and Broadway audiences would also soon get a chance to laugh-and puzzle over-The Cocktail Party...
Orson-Welles, no mean prestidigitator in his own right, relishes every minute of Cagliostro's swashbuckling career. Rolling his eyes like an end man in an oldtime minstrel show, he charms crippled aristocrats right off their crutches, ogles a beautiful blonde into marriage against her will, beetles and bluffs his way into the court of King Louis XV, then meets his death in a prancing duel atop a tower high above Paris, with Marie Antoinette at his side...