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Word: true (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final results, true to form it told the story of I.L.G.W.U. in terms of the actions, character and motives of its president. It was another chapter in the continuing story of David Dubinsky and his union, which TIME will keep on reporting as it continues to unfold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Giuliano's reaction to all the hubbub ran true to form. While the police prepared for the manhunt, his 20 or so men staged two more hit & run raids on police barracks, raising the total police and carabinieri killings attributed to them to an even 100. In a new letter to the Palermo press Giuliano proposed: "Let us give the judgment to the people of Sicily and have a poll. If the people condemn me, I promise that I will resign. But if the people want me, I want to follow my destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Beautiful Lightning | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Handa's fellow townsmen were impressed, too. By last month, converts from the surrounding countryside were streaming into the rickety, broken-down hut which Nagumo used as his headquarters, to be comforted by Nagumo's deity, "The August Inside of Heaven Owner God." To demonstrate their true faith, the converts always laughed when they prayed. "The spirit of the smile," glowed Nagumo, "must linger in everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Laughing God | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...with complex blackboard diagrams at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study) marked his departure from Greek myth and medieval legend. Set in a modern London flat and a psychiatrist's Harley Street office, it contained social chitchat, a bawdy ballad and a couple of interlocking triangles. But, true to form, devout Anglo-Catholic Eliot had underlaid his comedy with sober Christian dialectic. First-nighters at the Edinburgh Festival could note that Eliot's psychiatrist and patients acted and talked more like a parson and his parishioners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Edinburgh | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...True to cinemilitary tradition, the film shows how crisis and the call of duty can regenerate the most cynical heel. As the heel, Richard Widmark sinks so low that only something as drastic as a hurricane can wash his sins away. A Naval Reserve pilot, he flies a plane for dope smugglers. In his spare time he drinks intemperately, cruelly casts off his sweetheart (Veronica Lake) and makes passes at the wife (Linda Darnell) of an old Navy buddy (John Russell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 5, 1949 | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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