Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getting back to work after a fine autumn weekend, the U.S. people read the big black headlines. The U.S. and its Western allies had broken off the Berlin negotiations with Russia. An American white paper set forth the long and dreary record of Russian stubbornness, stalling and duplicity. Was war really imminent? The answer was somewhere between no and maybe (see INTERNATIONAL...
...Nazis, who after all rose to power only because the West realized that they might be used as a buffer against the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, the businessmen of the West failed to forces that the megalomaniac Hitler would turn not only against Russia, as planned, but also against the Western powers...
...Western scientists, approving this declaration, will follow Haldane carefully. If he goes to Prague, they will note what happens to him if he deviates from the party's scientific line. The line itself is none too clear, and devout Communist geneticists may eventually get into trouble if they stick to it. Last week Nobel Prizewinning Dr. H. J. Muller, a leading U.S. geneticist, pointed out a doctrinal time bomb that threatens Lysenko's followers. The Lysenko doctrine, said Muller, teaches that the heredity of organisms is shaped by their environments. When applied to the evolution of man, said...
...setting is the Western Reserve, in the early 1800s, when the West was in Ohio. Widower David Harvey (William Holden) buys Bondwoman Rachel (Loretta Young) for $22, marries her, and brings her back to his remote cabin. He treats her like a servant and his little boy Davey treats her like dirt. When David's old friend, deep-woods Hunter Jim (Robert Mitchum), turns up, Rachel looks to him like fair game. He is indecently polite to her, openly courts her, even offers a better price for her than David paid in the first place. The wooing and wrangling...
...does not use J. M. Synge's more savage curse on one who disliked The Playboy of the Western World...