Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Tom Pendergast got his grip on the city administration, its seamy side got much more national attention than its solid core of respectability and its increasing commercial importance. During Pendergast's reign, the town was a free-&-easy capital of grifters, gamblers, gangsters and striptease grinders. In no other city in the U.S. were vice and gambling so well protected. When the Boss needed money, his boys put a deeper bite on the brothel-keepers, bookies and crapshooters. Tom Pendergast, who made his town a trap for suckers, turned out to be one of the biggest suckers himself...
...Roberts lives in Kansas on account of Old Tom Pendergast. The boss's assessors, by upping tax valuations, had made it tough on the Star's wealthy executives to own property on the Missouri side...
...subject does not lend itself to brilliance!" But anxiety focuses on more than carrots and conversation. In the survey, fewer than one-third of all Europeans believe that there exists "a fairly good chance" to avoid a major war within the next 25 to 30 years. Asked further: "Which side [U.S. or Russia] do you think is gaining ground today and which losing ground?" most Europeans, casting up rough accounts in the aftermath of Czechoslovakia, answer "Russia...
...stay at the helm. But Chiang remained adamant. Gradually, it became plain that his move was an effort to show the civil war in a clearer light. The Communists present it as a struggle between two parties. Chiang sees it as a conflict between the Reds on one side and China's national life and culture on the other. Explaining the qualifications of China's next President, Chiang said: "The President must have a profound understanding of our history, culture and national traditions. It is evident that the Communists are determined to undermine the very existence...
...does not come sharply to life on the screen; he has told his story with compassion as well as passion. The picture is scarcely more than a photographed play, but it is unusually well acted-notably by Robinson, Lancaster and Christians. It is earnest, it is on the side of the angels, and it is not without genuine dramatic vitality. Yet it is in no way deeply disturbing, or satisfying. Like most contemporary efforts of the right-minded, it is tainted with self-righteousness. It is not really either very bold or very original to observe that bad business ethics...