Word: thoughte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words down to 2,000 to fit into half an hour, with another 30 minutes' time for translation. At his side as he spoke was his own interpreter, the U.S. State Department's Alexander Akalovsky, charged with translating in the most effective way possible-thought by thought, but never more than a paragraph at a time-into Russian...
Visiting Time. Both the vague expectancies of those who saw nothing else to pin their hopes on and the exaggerated fears of Europeans who thought that they would not be allowed to settle their own destinies rested on a false premise. The U.S. has no desire and no intention of sitting down with Khrushchev in a new Yalta on the Potomac, disposing of one crisis after another in a grand "world settlement." The U.S. is fully aware that if it did so, it would only alienate its most valued friends; furthermore, anything negotiated would also require U.S. Senate approval. Such...
...maintain that it "has so suffered from the competition of Mr. Hunt's company [William Morris Hunt's is executive producer of the C.D.F.]...that it is doubtful that it can continue." When Mr. Durgin asked Mrs. Alison Ridley Evans, Group 20's manager, she said she thought her business had suffered "to some extent," but added equivocally, "It is hard to estimate how much." Yet Group 20's fine current production of Shaw's Man and Superman has evidently done excellent business since it has had to be held over an extra week...
...longer speeches, however, trip him up. He fails to convey all the sense, the rhythm, and the grandeur. He has not yet wholly mastered the difficult art of breathing properly, so that he often pauses at the end of a line when the thought demands that he go right on to the next...
...piched high. She moves about a lot, at one point with her hands held overhead as though reliving the time she had to carry the murder weapons back to the scene of the crime. And when she mutters those horrendous words, "Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?", she separates the last words and desperately wrings her hands in a vain attempt to loose them from her arms...