Word: utters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there are some moments--especially in the first act--when the sudden monologues about plants and fertilizers make the play formless and uninteresting. But once the characterizations are well established, the playwright manages to maintain a tight, logical consistency between the fanciful lines and the equally volatile people who utter them...
...Boris Chaliapin, in his cover picture of Marilyn, capture that wistful appeal for something higher than physical attraction? And how could you give us the full story of her life with such utter frankness without degrading her, but making those who have made profit out of her, and all the rest of us, accord her the respect for which she now yearns as the lines of maturity begin to show around eyes and neck. May the girl on the calendar raise our sights to higher ideals for our country's women...
...British were inclined to agree about Marshall's talent for humbug and his unreliability as a negotiator, but their distaste for the new Asian demagogy did nothing to speed a solution to the problem of unstable Singapore. Lennox-Boyd was left to utter that inevitable Colonial Secretary's remark: "We, for our part, have done...
...astonished, not so much by the President's popularity as by the realization that Ike, never a politico, had revealed himself as a man of sound politician's instincts. His veto of the ill-smelling natural gas bill last February and of the farm bill, his utter frankness about his health, and last week his swift appointment of the Senate's most distinguished Democrat, Georgia's retiring Walter George, to a NATO ambassadorship (see below) -all these have turned resoundingly to his political account...
...weekly installments, both Berlin and London bureaucrats are so mystified that they neither put the secret information to use, nor stop the security leak. And there is a woman. She gets her just desserts when the money which Mason got from the Germans is found to be counterfeit. Despite utter defeat in love and finance, he just laughs an ironic laugh, and in doing so achieves the maturity...