Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rear-guard action, covering the evacuation of towns, hindering and harassing Budenny at every turn. Often their base train would slip out of the west of a town as the Cossacks clattered in at the east. Once they were forced to burn planes that failed at the last moment, the pilots escaping on foot. Like other Russian troops, Budenny's men had been promised a four-day loot of Warsaw, took no officers prisoners. Each Kosciuszko pilot carried a vial of potassium cyanide in case of capture...
Ashley Dukes, the author, conceived a subtle theme. The program pointedly indicates "Time: Summer 1800." This of course, is the tip-off. England at that moment was discarding the last cluttering tentacles of monarchy under the insane George III, and feeling the strength of democracy, peeking over the shoulder of France, so to speak, in order to learn a few more of the battle cries of freedom. A nobleman, Hugh Buckler; with his man, John Buckler; and one of the Prince's paramours, Miss Cowl, with her maid, Marion Evensen; come together in a deserted country inn. Here...
...present moment, neither of the two coming games look like setups; New Hampshire possesses an apparently powerful air attack, while Penn. State piled up a large score against Lehigh in its opening game and is reputed to have a good all-around team...
...represented the Untouchables as well as the rest of India. When Mr. Gandhi announced his fast Dr. Ambdekar, addressing the advisory Indian Legislative Assembly, called it "a political stunt." Soon afterward Dr. Ambdekar began to break down, saying that perhaps Mr. Gandhi had solved the electoral issue "in a moment of reflection" and that he vished to see him. The meeting took place last week and Untouchable Dr. Ambdekar as well as high-caste Hindu leaders were apparently moved beyond endurance by the piteous sight of the Mahatma quivering on a cot in the prison yard beneath the shade...
...15� flophouse, suddenly reappears as a toasted but disillusioned Paris diseuse. At this point her bony, impassive face, deep, hoarse voice, crazy- reckless look and swagger are unpleasant but impressive. Hardly the madonna type, she comes home for the ultimate pleasure of holding her child for a moment, decides to stay as her child's music box tinkles out the case for commonplace happiness. Good shot: a fake cabaret gorilla rocking formidably from side to side, pulling off one paw to expose a slender white hand (Dietrich...