Word: weren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critics consider him a captive boss, the prisoner of men and forces he cannot control. To them, the real C.I.O. boss is General Counsel Lee Pressman, lawyer, shrewd publicist, a smooth man with strong left-wing tendencies. But Phil Murray's friends, paraphrasing Voltaire, say: "If there weren't a Phil Murray it would have been necessary to invent...
...producers weren't sure just how much ballet G.I.s could stand, so they corned it up. The show traced the growth of a dancer from an eight-year-old student "rat" to the première danseuse in Giselle. Late in the evening, for the first time in its history, the Opera lifted all its backdrops, baring the entire 185-ft.-deep stage. Even members of the orchestra stood up in the pit to watch. Then stagehands in new blue uniforms (they refused to appear before the Americans in faded ones) changed sets, set up scenery for Les Deux...
...weren't for my family, I'd throw it out. . . . All you hear is junk and commercials and murder mystery...
...light of the record, were Negro citizens "thoughtful" in the same way as Southerners, they might wish they could spend the next few eternities where there weren't any Southerners...
...Itchy Fingers. When the scientists gathered in New Mexico to test the first atomic bomb, they weren't entirely sure just what would happen. A few suspected that the nuclear chain reaction might spread from the bomb's uranium, flash around the world in the air and burn every living thing to a crisp. One enthusiastic physicist, famed Enrico Fermi, casually offered to bet his associates 10-to-1 that it would. He got no takers...