Word: weltering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...educated individual would be made acquainted with what the agencies of mass communication are their dangers as well as their usefulness, their commercial motivations as well as their educational possibilities--all very concretely in terms of names and places. He would have learned to discriminate and choose amidst the welter of news and opinion. He would have acquired a sales resistance, and yet know how to buy; an initial skepticism which would nevertheless permit him to believe. He would, in short, be the maker and guardian of his own mind...
...welter of productive activity that characterized the Bel Geddes establishment, Barbara was, comparatively, pretty small potatoes. Like Joan, her elder (by six years) sister, and a short-lived "little" magazine called Inwhich, she was the product of Norman's collaboration with his first wife, Helen Belle Sneider.* She was no match for such stupendous enterprises as Norman's transformation of New York's Century Theater into a Gothic cathedral for Max Reinhardt's The Miracle...
...south bank of the Han. The Bun Chon shopping district, not badly mauled last autumn, was now flattened. Ambassador John J. Muccio's official residence had taken two more direct hits. The great red- painted, brass-studded gates of the embassy compound were leveled and buried in a welter of rubble. None of the utilities was operating. Streetcar and light wires dangled from poles. A few women dipped water from manholes in gourds fastened to long poles. The capitol building, which the Reds had fired last autumn in a senseless act of spiteful arson, had its lobby fouled...
...true-confession anecdotes to tell how woebegone Eleanor Parker was deceived by a marine; how News Reporter Patricia Neal abandoned her husband to gallivant around the world, and how temperamental Ruth Roman fatally bashed her betrayer over the head with a desk ornament. Of the men concerned in this welter of babies and pliant ladies, Frank Lovejoy is effective as a disenchanted husband and Ted de Corsia is all right as a philanderer's front...
...Questions. Since Brazil is too vast and loosely knit for parties to develop rigid principles or programs, no clear-cut campaign issues had emerged. Instead, the Big Three and their parties entered into a welter of double-decking local deals and cross-endorsements that aligned them in some states with lesser parties and local chieftains, and in some states with each other. Amid such entanglements, even the outlawed Communist Party found little difficulty in sneaking names onto the candidates' lists of one party or another all over Brazil. Politicos were too glad to pick up any added support...