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Smiling Defiance. Gubichev smiled. The judge stared sternly, and then, before agreeing to the Government's request, voiced his pent-up indignation on Gubichev: ". . . You came here as an emissary of peace; you were acceptable among us in the role of a friend . . . but you betrayed the cause of peace. You have, by your acts, attempted to destroy the hopes of millions . . . And you do all this with arrogance . . . there is a smile on your lips . . . you are defiant of all humanity." Then, sentencing Gubichev to 15 years in prison, and suspending the sentence, the judge warned that...
Fuller Shelves. Many retailers had already cleaned up their inventories too thoroughly. Last week they were busily restocking. After ten months of successive decline, U.S. retail inventories had jumped a tidy $500 million in September. There was still a tremendous amount of pent-up buying power. Disposable income had risen 4.8% in 1949's first half over the same period last year, to an annual rate of $194.6 billion, and personal savings had almost doubled...
...cameramen have carefully perceived things which Hollywood has only squinted at. They have caught the quick flash of sunlight off the front fender of a car. They have watched a pent-up ball of twine roll excitedly along a curbstone. They have found the texture of a masonry wall, and the quiet beauty of a row of tenements slanting downhill into the afternoon...
...last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept." In this swelling prose, Winston Churchill last week introduced U.S. readers of LIFE, the New York Times, and publications in 50 other countries to Their Finest Hour* Vol. II of his memoirs. Like The Gathering Storm last year, the second volume will be published by Houghton Mifflin Co. and will be a Book-of-the-Month selection...
Patton before a race. The split second the gun goes off, all this pent-up emotion explodes...