Word: showness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, at Sarajevo, the minaret-studded Bosnian town where in 1914 Austria's Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated, Tito was having his own show. The defendants in the dock were accused of spying for Soviet Russia, collaborating with prewar Yugoslav fascists and plotting to overthrow the Tito regime...
...Yugoslavs also released the suicide notes of Father Nekliudov to show that he had really died by his own hand. To his wife (if the notes were genuine) the priest had written: "My Veronika, forgive me. Goodbye . . . Those who are 'creating history' [are to blame], and perhaps not even they." To his court and jailers: "I blame nobody . . . Food was good." To his prosecutor: "The wheel of history has passed over a worm." To God: "How stupid it is. Before my life's end, I am lunching and dining and taking exercise . . . God, where...
...fight triumphantly with the Swedes against the Russians, the French and the Danes in the Baltic. Some 30 years later she headed for the Mediterranean with a combined fleet of British, Austrian and Turkish vessels, in the 1840 war against Egypt. A symbolic cock (to show that she was cock of the walk) rode high above her royals when she returned to Britain...
...holding office must look to his reputation," he began. "Now that I have been accused of robbing the public purse, I intend to show by documents that these charges are false. And since Prensa and Nación have echoed these uncalled-for calumnies, I now intend to see that these accusers are brought to justice...
...next night the Veep spoke to some 2,500 bigwig Democrats at a fund-raising dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria. (Estimated net take for the Democratic National Committee: $300,000.) On the enchanted evening when the honeymooners got around to seeing South Pacific, they literally stopped the show. Entering the theater a few minutes late, they got a rousing ovation from both cast and audience. The next day they were off to a home-cooked dinner in their Washington apartment...