Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole the play was well staged. A carpeted stage in the jungle scenes would have eliminated the undesirable stamping effect. Another hack of considerable magnitude was the handling of drum beats. According to stage directions, the drum is supposed to begin at the normal pulse rate of 72 beats per minute and should gradually accelerate to simulate a rising pulse. Instead, the rate was too slow at the beginning and too fast and irregular...
...evolution," seemingly, had reached the stage at which the Quirinal wanted to arrest it. From Bern came this report, based on documentary sources...
...Badoglio's replacement of Mussolini is not an improvisation to meet a suddenly developed crisis; it is the first stage in a long-prepared plan aiming at securing Italy an 'honorable' peace with the United Nations. The Italian participants are the Royal House of Savoy, the Vatican (as mediator), and the 'Peace Party.' The Peace Party consists simply of Italy's traditional ruling classes, and their basic aim is to preserve their power. They had no essential quarrel with Fascism so long as it was successful. But when it became obvious that the Axis...
...Pressures. But the Allies could not accept the last of these points. The war had reached a stage where Italy could not withdraw, could not be neutral. If she were not on the German side, she had to take the Allied side. For Italy had become a vital breach in Festung Europa, an avenue to, and a rampart of, the inner citadel of Germany. The Anglo-American and the German military machines were squeezing her hard...
Last week WPB's rotund, owlish Chief Donald M. Nelson cautiously peered at reconversion, found it not so frightening. Said Nelson: in the first war stage, the job of U.S. industry was to spew out enormous quantities of every kind of weapon. But the U.S. is now in the second war stage, when emphasis has shifted to the production of special weapons and expanded manufacture of peacetime articles is needed to keep the war machine whirling. Example: farm machinery...