Word: stronge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than fruitful week for the U.N. At one point during the Political Committee's debate, as a Byelorussian delegate kept sledgehammering away on a procedural point, Fayez El-Khouri of Syria sighed: "We cannot all withstand the pressure of these meetings. If the representative of Byelorussia has a strong nervous and physical system, I confess that for my part I sometimes need rest, moral and spiritual rest...
Just about the only sharp disappointment the Communists suffered was in sales of a soft drink called Unita, brewed to replace Coca-Cola, which the Reds have denounced as capitalist poison (TIME, Aug. 22). Unità, which looks like Coke but has a strong flavor of quinine and tamarind, was a flop. Since Communist palates still thirsted for real Coke, the party decided to play it safe. "Comrades," announced a poster, "Coca-Cola was not invented by the Americans, but by the Russians...
...cliches of antidiscrimination propaganda might charge that the sour-sweet old plantation owner (Ethel Barrymore) is a "symbol" of white paternalism and the Ethel Waters role a "symbol" of Aunt Jemimaism. But Pinky is the most skillful type of propaganda: in avoiding crude and conventional labeling, it leaves a strong impression that racial discrimination is not only unreasonable but evil...
...compared the squad favorably to last year's on the basis of the opening game performances; but rated it well below the strong '51 team which defeated Andover...
...things in Boston and no people can tell better than the Poles the accounts of German atrocities in the last war. You won't be able to pick up much of the Polish parts in the dialogue, but even without the words you'll be able to feel the strong sentiments of pathos and tragedy that mark such a universally odious subject...