Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born, Harvard-educated Charles Angoff. Critic, Novelist and Edi tor Angoff has a legitimate claim to know Mencken well-from 1925 to 1933 he was Mencken's sole editorial associate on the Mercury. But this will only partly help the reader to know Mencken better. Angoff's strip-poker method of characterization rarely gets under the man's skin; it merely shows he had one. "Say any damn thing you please," Mencken once told Angoff, "only never say I was a Christian." Angoff has kept the promise by making him a kind of village atheist...
...leaders from the late Alcide de Gasperi on pointed to the internal Communist threat to Italian democracy. Simultaneously, the Demo-Christians quietly stalled all moves to establish a court similar to the U.S. Supreme Court, as the constitution specified. So long as there was no such court, nobody could strip the government of its powers...
...help because Bromo Seltzer has failed him. Reduced to painting nudes on ties and landscapes on the backs of turtles, Hope is visited in his garret by a dazzling blonde (Eva Marie Saint) who used to be his wife and is now engaged to George Sanders, a moneyed comic-strip artist whose ego contains more hot air than a Turkish bath...
...National Security Act of 1947 took away the autonomy of the Army and Navy, created a separate Air Force and put all three under the wing of a newly created Department of Defense. The most workable plan for a single-service Armed Forces of the U.S. would strip away the three service Secretaries, place U.S. military policy completely in the hands of the civilian Secretary of National Defense. He would be aided by an Under Secretary and by Assistant Secretaries for procurement, personnel, research, public affairs, etc., much as is the Secretary of Defense today...
...times since World War II the good women of Japan have tried to strip the cloak of legal protection from the backs of their scarlet sisters...