Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile Ankara's war-sultry air was electric with facts and rumors. It was a fact that Turkey's Army was engaged in military maneuvers (scheduled some time ago). But conscription was still in the rumor stage. So were reports that all Turkish ships had been ordered into Turkish harbors. It was true that talks were going on among representatives of Turkey, the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and Great Britain, that Germany's nine-man economic mission were cooling their heels for nearly a month in Ankara...
...Buenos Aires, extreme nationalist organizations seized the golden opportunity to stage street demonstrations against what they termed Yankee bullying. Pro-Nazi newspapers, El Federal, Cabildo, La Fronda screamed the same note. Foreign Minister Orlando Peluffo, in the first speech he had made in his three months in office, nicely balanced a protest of good-neighborly intentions with a proud declaration of independence. Many an Argentine who had looked on the military regime with a fishy eye was now moved to support it as defender of his country's sovereignty...
...stage, a rake-voiced orator tripped through his garden of adjectives. The man he was describing sat amidst the delegates below, hunched forward in his chair, sneaking bites from a hot dog and sips from a paper cup of soda pop, paying no more attention to the routine speech than the rest of the audience did. The speech was about him, but neat, grey little Harry Shippe Truman, 60, has heard thousands of speeches in his years of politics...
Twilight Rumors. From the cavernous stage of Hitler's Europe, from behind the censor's hastily lowered asbestos curtain, came a confused welter of noises: hoarse shouts, the sound of running footsteps, the sudden stutter of machine guns. It was like the opening scene of a tragic and savage Twilight of the Gods. Rumor cried...
...caves, when Miss Quested imagines that Dr. Aziz has insulted her, the melodramatic trial, when she lets, the Empire down by refusing to bear false witness against him-seem less impressive; the brilliant characterizations, the religious and political insights, the atmosphere, more impressive. Much that once seemed stage setting now seems as live as a hand grenade. Sample: the jocular references to Japanese spies...