Word: rant
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...because he is too busy - writing. He writes for no censorship except truth as he sees it. He is just now putting the finishing touches to his new novel, They Fought for Their Country. Sholokhov gets his heroic effect by indirection. He does not find it necessary to rant or repeat cliches of patriotism. He writes what seems to me to be the truth about soldiers. He says: "How much does a man need in time of war? To get a little farther away from death than usual, to rest, to have a good sleep and eat his fill...
...Frances Hopkins," apparently American, possibly the wife or daughter of a missionary. She is inclined to rant...
With his moods and tempers, British officials began to find Hess difficult. Before conversations got very far, he would rage and rant. One official saw Hess alone one day, decided to get started on an amiable course. Said the official: "There's some thing that has always interested me. In the Battle of Britain, to put it in round figures, British communiqués said Germany lost about 2,500 planes and we lost about 750. Now your communiqués said just about the opposite-that we lost 2,000 planes and Germany lost only about...
...With rant, doubletalk and repetitious exaggeration, Mostel achieves a weirdly intelligent satire. His first efforts for Basin Street pleased the studio audience more than they did radio listeners, but Mostel, new to the microphone, last week reduced his dependence on pantomime. Some of his established impersonations: an isolationist Senator ("What the hell was Hawaii doing in the Pacific?"); Charles Boyer cooing to Hedy Lamarr ; Hitler explaining his withdrawal from Russia...
...white Detroiters was that they didn't want Negroes living near them. Their, community was too respectable to allow in such undesirables. In other words, it seems to be quite all right to rant against the Nazis' cruelty of forcing Jews into squalid, European ghettos, but it's nothing at all to whet the old knives, arm yourselves with heavy stones, muster an overwhelming majority of supporters, and then forcibly drive hated Negroes back into their equally-bad American slums. Those Detroit citizens, who scorn the Nazi theory of racial superiority, are at the same time hypocritically and vainly picturing...