Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view the award as in part a personal bestowal upon his father-in-law, Publisher Adolph Simon Ochs, Mr. Sulzberger launched into a glowing recital of the Ochs ideals, prowess, personality. To Mr. Sulzberger his chief is "the perfect newspaperman." "He is simple and direct, and able to strip the most difficult problem of its complexities and put his finger on the underlying and motivating facts-the news angle becomes apparent his touch. ... His greatest delight is to find an insignificant paragraph which under his prodding develops into a first-page story the following...
...complaints began to take shape in the Senate corridors against the Lobby Committee's obvious Dry bias. The committee was accused of stalling its inquiry of Wet organizations to give Dry organizations time to strip their letter files of all incriminating documents...
...city, chains were knocked off, the Negro men were told to pick their own brides and mate with them forthwith. The great mass-mating lasted for weeks. Sultan Moulay Ismail obtained as an eventual result the most powerful army in North Africa. He benevolently gave each couple a strip of land to till and the choice of either a donkey or a camel...
...picture, which deals with the trial of Joan for witchery is an artist's, not a historian's, attempt to strip the legend-wrapped saint and discover the simple peasant girl that was the real Joan. She lives in the pages of Mark Twain and of Shaw, but she moves and breathes more convincingly still in the superbly restrained portrayal of Mile, Falconetti...
Holy relics displayed by three canons during the mass were: a piece of the True Cross, a strip of the linen with which St. Veronica wiped the brow of the Saviour, a fragment of the spear which pierced His side...