Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week this deadlock was broken by a sudden Senate compromise. As the House Ways and Means Committee completed work on a comprehensive tax-reform bill, the Senate approved a measure extending the surtax to December 31. Senate passage of the reform bill is expected by midautumn. If the reform measure does not pass, further extension of the surtax will be in jeopardy...
...when nuclear missiles stand poised less than 30 minutes from their targets, the ability of civilian and military leaders to communicate and command is crucial. Last week a House subcommittee charged that inefficiency in these vital areas sometimes renders U.S. forces impotent during sudden emergencies...
...feared that he was plotting to cling to the Blue House, his official mansion in Seoul. Last month the sort of student protests that brought down Rhee in 1960 erupted against Park. After rock-throwing clashes countered by tear gas, the police managed to restore order. Park's sudden announcement of his bid to stay in office may provoke new and more serious troubles. Politicians in the splintered opposition groups, students and intellectuals complain that Park has been in power too long and that his Democratic Republican Party is corrupt. Park himself remains honest, and he has been...
...fifty. 'Fifty-fifty, hell,' he said. 'It's your scene. Take it.' Then he added under his breath, 'If you can.' " The master of the western, Director John Ford, calls Wayne "a splendid actor who has had very little chance to act." Agrees Director Andrew McLaglen: "All of a sudden they're saying that he's an actor. Well, he always...
...visual scheme, establishes the pattern of the entire film. In this system the attraction of light is a crucial motivation of personal behavior, and Jannings' blindness to the globe behind him appears simultaneously with a restriction of depth that expresses the limitations of his moral and perceptual experience. The sudden manifestation of death (which had existed before the film began) in the canary is part of the film's smooth flow, a dramatic event quietly noted and celebrated (in the bird's cremation). The theme of a box-like object or set whose dark exterior contains a bright space inside...