Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee's recommendations, certain to be made law at Parliament's next session, had a practical side. Supporting the Indians is a heavy burden. From $5 million in 1936, the cost has risen to $22 million this year. Since the Indian population is increasing at a rate of about 1,500 a year, the oldtime policy may soon cost more than the country can afford...
Charles (The Lost Weekend) Jackson, bestselling scratcher of the seamy side, was called to Hollywood to write the movie script for Feodor Dostoevsky's The Eternal Husband...
...above the battle stood old Moses himself. And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses' hands were heavy . . . and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.* The Israelites...
Lobster on Niki Street. The CBS story had all the drama and color of an Eric Ambler mystery. Tall, blond George Polk, whose pull-no-punches broadcasts had angered the Greek government,† had been trying to reach the hideout headquarters of Leftist General Markos to get the guerrilla side of the story. His "contact man" was apparently an Athens flower vendor, who visited Polk daily for ten days before his death-but in the treacherous climate of Athens, Polk had no way of making sure whether he was dealing with Right or Left...
...Berlin, whose Irish immigrant grandfather made his pile in the Comstock Lode, and whose father was Postal Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Mackay, plainly knows her lace-curtain set. But she handles her characters with kid gloves, eagerly plays up the best side of the worst of them. Most readers will get the feeling that she knows more about their problems than she has chosen to write...