Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Song of Bernadette" is a simple tale, and it is told with sympathetic restraint. The usual gaudy theatrics are nowhere present to mar the strength of Franz Werfel's tale of the miracle of Lourdes. The screen writing is first rate; if any film ever possessed material to inspire its audience, "The Song of Bernadette" is that picture. Franz Werfel's imaginative reproduction of a modern revelation makes a very superior movie...
...London, two G.I.s and their English brides went on the air, talked back & forth with their relatives in the U.S. Announcers on both sides of the Atlantic nervously hovered in the background, with advisable self-restraint stepped in only when there was a hitch in the conversation...
...boats. This was indeed a deadly moment in our life, and if it had not been for the loyalty and friendship of northern Ireland, we should have been forced to come to close quarters with Mr. de Valera or perish forever from the earth. However, with a restraint and poise to which I say history will find few parallels, His Majesty's Government never laid a violent hand upon them, although at times it would have been quite easy and quite natural, and we left the De Valera Government to frolic with the German and later with the Japanese...
...stormy night session, Eden took the lead in telling off the Commissar. Sullen and embarrassed, Molotov fought back as best he could. Afterward, in a tone of pained restraint, Stettinius and Eden asked the Soviet Government to account immediately and fully for the whereabouts (and safety) of the "prominent Polish democratic leaders" under arrest, and halted the Big Three's negotiations for broadening the Warsaw Government. In effect the Yalta agreement to agree on a new government for Poland was suspended...
...Restraint a Virtue? Not pretending to give "both sides," PM is its shrill, opinionated self because Manhattan's "truly competitive daily newspaper market [forces] papers to represent different groups in order to continue." In Chicago, he puts out the better-rounded Sun because "where monopolies now exist . . . no publisher has the right to use a newspaper for the expression of his whims, prejudices and ambitions." PM, he makes clear, has his blessing to live alone and like it. "Some people seem to consider it strange that I should have paid out money to meet a paper's deficit...