Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from amused by the guillotining and the cavorting. The London News Chronicle's James Cummings, usually sympathetic to Labor, dourly commented: "It was of the utmost importance that such a measure should be thoroughly debated, clause by clause, and that it should be made to stand the test of every sort of criticism. . . . Instead of that, the Government, by the wholesale use of the guillotine apparatus, turned Parliament into a gigantic sausage machine. ... It made nonsense of the vital and historic functions of the House of Commons. . . . One can see that it has given the Tories a stronger argument...
...Name of History. One who knew him intimately then says: "Till this moment, Togliatti would not have accepted too rigid dictation from Moscow. Now he began losing all such scruples." Later, the soul of Palmiro Togliatti plunged into a crisis that was to test, once & for all, its true nature. From Moscow came a simple order: Italian Socialists, though they risked their lives to fight Fascism, were "sabotaging" world revolution and must be liquidated; the Communists must deliver the secret roster of Socialist leaders to the Fascist police...
...Migliore. After this test, Togliatti rose rapidly in the international hierarchy. Between foreign assignments he lived and wrote in Moscow. Said one of his friends: "He is one of the few Western Communists who can truthfully boast of Stalin's personal trust and friendship...
Author Miller does not apply the simple Biblical test for such prophets: "Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit...
...A.B.C., 18,000 men compete and the odds are against any one expert. In the singles, each man is limited to three games. In so brief a test, he has no chance to study the beds (alleys), get the feel of the wood,-the bounce of the floor. The best Varipapa could do was to roll 13 consecutive strikes...