Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until his regular midweek press conference did Acheson give the full U.S. answer. Relaxed and smiling, he dissected Stalin's offer point by point. Acheson's rebuttal was well-reasoned, neatly phrased, loftily scornful. Logically and morally, the honors were his, even if his words lacked a propagandist's simplicity and fire...
...What about your love life?" "Absolutely none, except music-at the moment." Well, what about the President's recent remark that he hoped to hand down his gold-headed walking cane to a grandson? "I think Daddy was a little short of something to say at that point...
...World Charm." U.S. justice, in the person of Federal Judge Harold Medina, listened patiently, though patience was tried to the breaking point. Justice had lent its ear while the Reds' lawyers tediously cross-examined 24 jurors, trying to prove that New York federal juries discriminated against Negroes, Jews, the poor. Rocking back & forth in a high-backed chair, Jurist Medina now & again pleaded with the Communists' shouting, ranting lawyers to remember where they were. Justice was also debonair and deft, so that even Party-Liner Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast, writing in the Communist Daily Worker, acknowledged Medina...
...offered by the defense as an "expert," but he did none of his usual screaming; he was bothered by a cold. No such ailment handicapped pint-sized Lawyer Harry Sacher, who looks like a Dead End Kid. In a bullfrog's voice he insinuated at one point that Judge Medina was prejudicing the trial. Medina said icily: "You and your colleagues have obviously adopted new techniques by which, instead of the defendants being tried, the court and all its members are the ones who must suffer excoriations and accusations of counsel. But I think perhaps with patience there will...
...prep-school editors of the Next Voter, a political semimonthly at Massachusetts' Brooks School, rose to a point of order. They had noted that Colonel Bertie McCormick calls his Chicago Tribune "the world's greatest newspaper." Said the Next Voter: "Full pages of advertisements . . . inform us almost daily that such & such a newspaper, magazine or periodical has the greatest circulation, is read by the most influential people, or is the most successful one in some way or other. Have these superlatives really any meaning? . . . Is it not possible, contrary to all rules of grammar, that a great newspaper...