Word: showings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franco tried to show that he was really a good democrat. In buttering up the U.S. and Latin America, he turned angrily on his fellow Europeans. "The European nations are so incapable, so old and so divided, and their politics so full of Marxism, passions and rancors," he said, "that it is natural for us to look toward America. The sea is no longer a barrier but a road to be traveled over ... In foreign politics . . . what counts [is] mutual understanding . . . and clean friendship on all sides, and so I will say, in the words of the song...
...veto on church appointments, the Communist propaganda machine has been screaming that the higher clergy and the Vatican are allied with "Anglo-American imperialists and fascists." Last week the new Communist-front Catholic Clergy Gazette unsubtly intimated that some priests could expect a higher income if they would only show "a positive attitude...
Veteran Stripper and sometime Litterateur Gypsy 'Rose Lee, currently touring the Midwest with her own girlie show in a carnival, discoursed on what it takes for success in stripteasing. "Brains! To go on year after year," said she, pointing to her forehead, "you got to have it up here...
When you first go on a quiz show, "you feel smart, impeccable, confident," declared Cartoonist Al Capp (Li'l Abner), describing the queasy sensations of a television guest star. But "after 15 minutes of being asked the simplest questions to which you cannot give the simplest answers [your fellow contestants] aren't your friends, they're your mortal enemies -exposing your ignorance, shaming you by their faultless haberdashery . . . and their air of slightly nauseated pity...
...course Stricker referred to, one text was the report of President. Truman's Council of Economic Advisors, and to show the union's point of view, the instructor passed out--on request--two union pamphlets...