Word: weren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that winter night with Valentin Gubichev, Russian engineer employee of U.N., because she was in love with him and not for any purposes of espionage. Kelley questioned her about a previous meeting she had had with Gubichev on Jan. 14. "You must have been deeply in love with him, weren't you?" Kelley asked softly. "Yes," Judy assured the courtroom...
...this highly contrived excuse for a series of monologues weren't sleazy enough, Author Wylie has three of the book's five female characters offer their beautiful bodies to Character Wylie in the course of one feverish weekend, which is the time limit of the action. It is significant that Character Wylie rejects these offers in order to have more chance to talk...
...name of Willie Houliston (rhymes with fool us none), national hero and ace center-forward for Scotland, was as bad as manhandling the name of Joe DiMaggio. At halftime, the Scots had dribbled and passed rings around St. Louis' All-Stars and led, 3-0, but their hearts weren't really in it. The familiar air of tension and desperation, compounded with an occasional "Hampden roar" (a sustained Scottish cheer which becomes so engulfing that mikes have to be turned down until it ceases), were missing. Final score: Scotland 6, St. Louis...
...others had a tunnel built through which they planned to escape. Frank Enley (Heflin) tried to persuade them not to attempt it but when they defied him Enley went to the Nazis, who agreed to leniency in view of the fact that Enley reported the scheme. The Nazis weren't lenient. Parkson was the only one who lived, and in "Act of Violence" he is out to "get" Enley...
Tenants and landlords disguised their happiness well. Some tenants and labor groups quickly condemned the formula, but most weren't sure how the plan would affect them. The vocal, well-organized real-estate groups yelped in noisy pain. "It's a phony and a fraud," cried one big Boston apartment owner. Landlords claimed that Woods's formula was based on false mathematics, took no account of the value of their property. According to many landlords, they would be collecting only 2 to 3% on the "fair value" of their properties even if they could wangle an increase...