Word: tearful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They ran into a mud wall with the play they had chosen--Gerhardi's "I Was a King in Babylon." The Dramatic Club didn't exactly tear down the goal-posts with its fig-leaved presentation of "Adam the Creator," either, but the competition hadn't really begun in those early days--the two groups even offered each other helpful hints from time to time. It wasn't until the heady aroma of "Saint Joan" began to fill the local columns and airwaves that the HD worries began...
...Communist tactics. It was a revival and stiffening of the People's Front strategy (i.e., Communist posturing as the great friend of democracy in league with any deluded non-Communist groups. Chief purpose: to get a lion's share in democratic governments, thus saving the chancy wear & tear of violent seizures of power...
...however, were his personal candor and his lack of principle; he fooled and defrauded others, but he willingly, if secretly, admitted the frauds. Frederick was secretive and an adept at dissimulation ("If I thought that my shirt or my skin knew anything of my intentions," he said, "I would tear them off"); he was capable of barefaced sophistry in diplomacy, but he frankly admitted in a private letter and in his memoirs that one reason for his seizure of Silesia at the beginning of his reign was sheer vanity...
Bernstein got his own training seven moths ago, amid tear gas and fire hoses, as first mate of the Chain Arlossoroff...
Bernstein took part in the wild battle in which 30 Jews and 11 British seamen were injured as the enraged refugees threw the initial boarding party over the side. A second wave overpowered the passengers and crew with fire hoses, clubs, and tear...