Word: utters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jones stubbornly refused to buy. Ex-Governor Smith, he recalls, came to see him "two or three times during the negotiations and indicated clearly his real feeling toward the President-which was that of utter contempt. He made it plain he had gone to the White House . . . only to help his friend Mr. Raskob [onetime chairman of the Democratic National Committee] get some of his money out of a losing venture...
From here the picture moves painfully through the histories of a raft of love-lorn couples, played by completely unknown, untalented actors. Scenes from each of six unrelated sagas are mixed in perfect combination to produce utter confusion. Characters are introduced and dropped with perplexing regularity...
...interest in a tottering California aircraft plant and went to work as a drop-hammer operator. "But after one day, I didn't like the way the place was being run," says Price, "and I asked the board to let me take over as manager. To my utter amazement, they accepted my proposal...
...pledged," met the order with characteristic language: "His [Monaghan's] 'I-am-the-law' order is intended to chain New York's 'finest' to their intolerable working conditions, low wages and long hours, through Iron Curtain tactics. It betrays an utter lack of confidence in the integrity of New York's policemen, who deeply and bitterly resent the coercive threats of this stumbling, petty dictator." Then he rushed the roster of his union out of the state so that it could not be seized, announced he would organize secretly, and filed suit...
...Singapore, on his tour of Asia, Governor Thomas E. Dewey expressed a view of the Korean war that was diametrically opposed to the MacArthur thesis of "utter uselessness." Said Dewey: "the vast armies of Red China have taken a terrific beating," and Communism has suffered its worst setback since...