Word: retold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heat in tiny, suffocating Chamber 13 of the Palais de Justice matted the 46-year-old defendant's white mane, wreathed his wrinkled face in perspiration. Four years after the war, the narrative of Nazi evil retold in the courtroom roused no passion, fell back into forgetfulness. During his deft defense, Abetz mechanically professed Nazi theory, just as mechanically pleaded that he had always tried to mitigate Nazi practice. The sentence: 20 years at hard labor...
...source book, it is a success. Its authors have retold the story of U.S. literature-from Cotton Mather's desire to "fill this Countrey with devout and useful Books" written by himself to a description of how Gone With the Wind was garbled in Japanese. Only occasionally slipping into literary jargon, the authors have written short essays-a few brilliant, the rest solidly competent-that are good introductions for the ordinary reader, and quick once-overs for lazy students...
Said Lilienthal: "We were to be frightened into our salvation. We were told that we must have world government and have it at once-within a definite and implacable time schedule-or we were goners. Our own special vulnerability to atomic warfare was told and retold in a way that was correct but fearsome in the extreme. Maps of New York City were published showing in detail just what ghastly horrors would occur if an atomic bomb . . . was dropped in the Hudson River...
Last week, a Fukien official reported that during the past year 100 men had been lost to the beasts. Fukien provincial troops would henceforth receive special instruction in big-game hunting. A TIME correspondent retold an ancient story with a new twist...
...Christmas Carol (Wed. 8 p.m., ABC). Retold on radio for the twelfth time by Lionel ("Scrooge") Barrymore...