Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israel, set one big condition. He demanded that the Syrians agree to dissolve all parties in the merger, and accept a single Nasserite National Union such as he has formed in Egypt. Kuwatly and other nationalists agreed. The Communists apparently did not dare object. It remained to be seen whether the Syrian Communists would be forced underground like Egypt's. "No Communist Party has ever dissolved itself before," said Party Chief Khaled Bakdash. "Dictatorships have on several occasions dissolved Communist parties...
...calling for a crackdown on moonshiners: "He who makes home brew, he who gives drink to the people, acts against the interests of the state, against society, and deserves punishment!" This brought him around to his distaste for "wet propaganda" in films and plays. Said Nikita soberly: "I have seen a film, Before It Is Too Late, made by the Lithuanian film studio. In this film the hero drinks vodka very often. It is not seldom in plays on the stage the hero is shown with a large bottle of vodka. We must not permit drunkenness to be made...
...hills; alone, Rodgers faced some 40 disappointed Elks. "I started strumming so hard it brought deep blisters up, and I lost a fingernail. But finally they began to dance. I got a hundred and fifty bucks a week, damned near more money than I'd ever seen before at one time-and I got my rhythm for Honeycomb...
...Fuel. A mountain of details still had to be climbed before air time. Warned Allen: "Don't forget to tell the gamblers in the casino if they're not with their own wives that they'll be seen all over America." Producer Harbach needed to clear a path for Steve Lawrence's long stroll through the casino and lobby ("Don't worry, I'll get a machine gun"), and to run interference for Comedian Costello during his 20-second dash from the casino to the next set on the nightclub stage...
...present seems to be deadened by the drone of Hail Marys and weighted by the sweet stench of stale funeral flowers banked around a seven-day-old corpse. The past, for the mourning family of Stanislaw Machek, is a terrain of lust and violence, seen dimly through the murk of love, greed, self-righteousness and madness. In a brilliantly constructed first novel, Author Richard Bankowsky, 29, leads the mourners at Machek's wake, one by one, back across that dark landscape...