Word: portions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Makarios. Lenox-Boyd now felt justified in all his darkest suspicions of Makarios. The discovery of the diaries came at an adventitious moment (a fact that stirred cynical memories of similar "discoveries" about Irish rebels at an ear lier date). The Greeks, of course, cried forgery. But even the portion released by the Colonial Office to bolster their case hardly justified the interpretations some London papers gave...
...political-education program that has prompted 80 employees to hold political office in states where the company has plants. Ford Motor Co. last June sent out letters urging more than 12,000 management-level employees to take an "active, perceptive interest in candidates" and to devote "at least a portion of their available time to the party of their choice...
...morning he noticed that guests' shoes were losing their gloss, ordered refresher courses for his shoeshine force. Horrified to learn that the Casino was losing 40? a portion on every meat dish, André phone-swoggled his butcher into giving him a $285-a-week price cut. Since he counts on making $1.75 on every $100 bet at roulette, André closely inspects the three inspectors he posts at every gambling table to keep an eye on the croupiers...
...finest portion of the film was the last. For this much of the credit goes to the marvelous chorus of avenging Furies, whose frightening makeup, snakepit writhings and almost surrealistic dancing were worthy even of Dante's Inferno. The play itself is a real suspense thriller, with the outcome in doubt. It builds up to the theatre's first trial by jury, a device that is still proving useful to dramatists 2500 years later...
...title of the film is a slight enigma, since the horse is very much alive for the major portion of the story, and in the end seems unlikely to return to earth in any shape or form. This may be the fault of the translation, though...