Word: part
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chance to read his confession over. When the court reconvened, Traicho Rostov, a colorless little man who looked like a small-town schoolmaster, still firmly stood his ground. For the first time in the weird history of Communist show trials, a major defendant had stepped out of the part assigned him and had yelled defiance till the end at the hidden author of the script.*Defendant Kostov provided some biting lines of his own. Questioned about Tito's police chief, Alexander Rankovic, he said: "I went to a banquet with him once where he proposed a toast...
...During the Great Moscow Purge trials in 1938, Nikolai Krestinsky similarly repudiated his confession, screamed: "Not guilty." He was rushed out of the courtroom, returned 20 minutes later to go back on the stand. That time he was letter-perfect in his part, missed...
Then for the main part of the experiment, the students were given a blank answer sheet of the same type used on the College Boards, and asked to fill it out to conform with a sheet secretly filled out by those giving the test...
Nothing is wrong with American radio, Kaltenborn insisted, that is not just as wrong with the whole country. He added that part of the public was materialistic, culturally immature, and so hungry for information that it would not wait for adequate confirmation of reports...
...satisfied with merely the plaudits of the Christopher prize. She approached Guthrie McClintic who agreed to produce and direct the play, Donald Ocnslager '23, who agreed to do the setting, and then she went about getting Grace George out of a seven year retirement to play the leading part...