Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Special applause for your article on Dr. Bontzolakis [who says that his abstract-artist patients are either poseurs or neurotics-March 9]. Let's hope it will open the eyes of all the snobbish dilettanti who unwittingly promote and support insanity, encouraging those unfortunate ones to stay away from doctors and sanatoriums where they would have a chance to be cured...
...summit meeting first: "It would be better if the heavyweights-the chiefs of govern ment-undertook to clear away the enormous debris that has accumulated in international affairs. Let them shift the boulders out of the way and start removing the rubble . . . But if such a proposal finds no support from our partners, we are prepared to start with a meeting of foreign ministers and then proceed to a meeting of chiefs of government...
Many of the blacks deliberately threw their support to the ultra-racist Dominion Party in order to deny Sir Roy his magic 16. In doing so, they ignored the call of their most extremist leaders to boycott the election, and turned out 80% strong to exercise their right to vote and to show their faith in constitutional means...
...down the Moscow-First crowd, Gomulka gave no encouragement to those Poles who urge more and more freedom, more and more separation from Russia. Denouncing the "intellectual nonsense of political romanticists," he faithfully echoed all the claptrap of Russian foreign policy. But this orthodoxy gave him Moscow's support for a highly unorthodox domestic regime. Delegates from other Communist nations found themselves in the freest society behind the Iron Curtain, where the press still takes liberties (though less and less); where talk is comparatively free; where the secret police are all but gone, and the Roman Catholic Church...
...suit and black mesh stockings, made a slinky, twittery TV debut as Sabina, the talkative, never-say-die seductress-maid in Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth. Critical verdict: Vivien once more proved that good legs are a ho-hum show's best means of support...