Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cali, defiant squads roamed the streets carrying thermos jugs, passing out coffee free to all. In Bogota's Cafe El Dorado, a grey-maned lawyer declaimed: "They're trying to tax a tradition-aye, exploit friendship itself!" In La Botella de Oro, a young sculptor shouted: "The birthright of all Bogotanos-a harmless vice, our oldest tradition. Double the price? No hay derecho! (They have no right...
...ancient hotbed of violence. Communism, he decided, was the enemy of Italy, and Togliatti was the head and heart of Italian Communism. "I could not bear the thought that he, an Italian, attended meetings of the Cominform," explained Pallante later. Being obsessed, he did not realize that Communism would exploit the martyrdom of Togliatti...
...that first defeat only made Grundy, Owlett & Co. more determined than ever to unseat the rebel. Scenting the fight, Deweymen rushed in to exploit the Grundy-Owlett wrath. It was an incongruous alliance. In the very week that Tom Dewey was urging reciprocal trade extension in Boston, Grundy's Doylestown Daily Intelligencer was editorially burning free-trade heretics at the stake. It was not that Joe Grundy distrusted Tom Dewey less; it was a case of distrusting Jim Duff more...
...Wrath is, to be sure, the kind of classical work in which scrupulous care is taken never to exploit a sensation or an emotion. Thus, beautiful as it is, it leaves one relatively cold. Dreyer seems to be more interested in creating motion portraits than drama, but he makes grave and noble drama of his portraits...
...were 'Art Directors' . . . you would put the machine in its place . . . You all use your work for comfort. There's no beauty or truth in it ... What is there you really reverence? ... Is there anything in God's name you wouldn't exploit...