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Last week Parisians wildly applauded this scene in a performance of Puccini's opera La Tosca. They found in it an emotional release from their own pent-up bitterness and frustration under police tyranny. And never, they said, had the role been acted so realistically. It never had. The curtain did not rise again. Neither did the Baron. Petit Parisien reported that in the excitement of the performance the villain had actually been stabbed...
...ahead. Now the bombardiers pushed their buttons, and now the big, dark mines, each weighing 1,500 pounds, tumbled from the planes. Some landed with a splash in the water; some hit the dams fair & square. When the roar of their explosions had subsided, the sustained, deeper roar of pent-up waters, suddenly released, struck terror into the hearts of those below...
...bitter, pent-up determination of South Africa's low-paid Negro workers to get better pay (TIME, Jan. 4) boiled over last week...
...incendiary) bomb slung on a cord around her neck, ceaselessly rubbing her dry eyes with her palms. The lady in charge (Fay Bainter) suggests that she may cry if she wishes. Margaret: "You won't smack me if I beller?" "No." Margaret begins to sob, finally relieves her pent-up tension and fears in wild, convulsing wails...
...four great fields, argued Kaiser, U.S. industry can in fact create jobs of an unprecedented scale. They are: 1) housing, where there is a pent up demand for 9,000,000 housing units; 2) transport, where the pent up demand for automobiles is immense; 3) the need for a vast, modern highway system; 4) adequate medical facilities and care for the health problems of the industrial age. In addition Kaiser pointed out: "The Atlantic Charter is no bilateral guaranty of British-American supremacy. Let it be said again that there will never be any significant prosperity in America as long...