Word: played
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...floodlights in the Sofia courtroom came up full force, concentrating on the miserable defendant in the dock. The court asked Traicho Kostov, once Bulgaria's No. 2 Communist, if he wished to make a final statement. Earlier in the trial Kostov had refused to play his assigned role, had denied being guilty of espionage and treason against Bulgaria (TIME, Dec. 19). This was his last chance to redeem himself-and he rejected it. "I must say once again," he began, "that I was never a police agent, never an imperialist...
Cadets spend time learning to play trombones, trumpets, accordions, euphoniums, graduate with the rank of probationary lieutenant. After a year of correspondence study and strict probation, they are commissioned as second lieutenants with the legal standing of ordained ministers. From there they advance through the field ranks: first lieutenant, captain, major; through the staff ranks: brigadier, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, lieutenant-commissioner, commissioner...
...using along its gospel travels, father Pugmire always hung the motto: "Christ is the head of this house, the unseen guest at every meal, the silent listener to every conversation." Family prayers were said every morning and every night. Serious-minded Ernest read to improve himself, learned to play the euphonium. Occasionally he used his fists capably when the boys in the neighborhood taunted him about his parents being Salvationists...
...Tension. Though he can boast such entertainment highs as his modern-dress Julius Caesar, the tense The Rival Dummy with Paul Lukas, and the pyrotechnic pageantry of Battleship Bismarck, Miner feels that "the best type of play for us is the psychological melodrama-it always gets the best response and the highest rating...
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