Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coward. In the course of his adventures he saves all those who doubted him, General Kitchener and a stockade full of prisoners left over from the last British campaign. At the close of the movie, there is the further promise that he will save a rotting old estate from ruin and emancipate the peasants his battle-crazy ancestors have neglected...
...from the East ... We Germans have nothing, really nothing, to protect our country. All this will be changed quickly and fundamentally after the ratification of the treaties. We will be secure and included in the greatest defense organization which mankind has created. [We can help] save Europe from threatening ruin and decay...
...this potent political fact was forcefully explained to Detroiter Dodge by his Western colleague, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay of Oregon. "Broth is never eaten as hot as it's cooked," philosophized McKay later. "I'm not really worried now. The Western Senators won't let them ruin the reclamation program...
Just who are these gangsters; these strong-arm ''preservers of American ideals" who can intimidate American businessmen so with threats of boycott (if you can't drag 'em off to jail, ruin their means of livelihood) that they are able to dictate which movies a free people will or will not see? ... Los Angeles is my home. I hope to return there when this mess is over, and when I again plunk down my buck for a loge in Grauman's Chinese Theater, I want to know I am seeing a movie the manager...
...Bordeaux, Judge Marcel Nussy Saint-Saëns (nephew of the composer) had delayed his verdict until 1 a.m. to avoid a public demonstration of quite another kind. There, not far from the desolate ruin of Oradour, feeling had run high all month long as witnesses told of the grisly mass murder. Paris newspapers had built the story up into one of the year's great controversies; it proved particularly timely, as a reminder of past German cruelties, for politicians who oppose a European army in which Germans and Frenchmen will wear the same uniform. The verdict: death...