Word: statements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ignorant of our true position or merely chooses to disregard the dangers. In either case, it continues in complacency where urgency is called for. The 'missiles Czar' proposed more than a year ago has proved a farcical prescription. Moreover, the public is confused and distrusts any government statement of strength. Furthermore, the strength of representative government is itself sapped. A successful democracy must rely upon an informed electorate. Whether acting from motives of concealment or from comforting delusion, the Administration discredits representative government and encourages dangerous complacency...
Fisher appeared overly modest about the fact that he went to Harvard--both as an undergraduate and to get his law degree. He did not volunteer the information, even in a statement of his background...
Alias Dummkopf. In Hannover, West Germany, while on watch for Robbery Suspect Gerhard Kuschel, police arrested one Roy Oerl for trying to sleep in someone else's parked car, decided to let him go if he would sign a statement that he had not intended to steal the car, whisked him away when he dashed off the signature: "Gerhard Kuschel...
Patriotic Effort. Paulo, Maïté and the lawyer rushed to Magistrate Batigne with Maïté's story. At long last, the magistrate pulled Rayon's signed statement from his drawer, put the case in the hands...
...most present visitors, the Albright's latest exhibition remains a monumental procession of question marks in color. Hans Hartung's T 55-28 has airy life about it, yet hardly seems to justify Expert Alfred Barr's considered statement that Hartung, 54, a German turned Parisian, is "perhaps the best master of calligraphic abstraction." In 3 Avril 54, Pierre Soulages' black, plank-broad oil smears do not seem a great advance over the similar smears that first brought him attention a decade ago. Donald Hamilton Eraser's Morning Star offers at least a tenuous contact...