Word: shattered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tired Viceroy had again claimed that "agreement cannot be reached between the conflicting interests of this country as fro who is to take over responsibilities which we are only too ready to transfer to Indian hands." First Jinnah called Linlithgow's speech "most inopportune and likely to shatter what little hope of settlement had been created," then he gave substance to Linlithgow's claim by ranting: "We do not want the Atlantic Charter or the Pacific Charter. We love our charter-that is Pakistan [separate Moslem State]. Neither the British Government nor the Government of India can distract...
...tries for writing fame, while Eileen makes a few half-hearted attempts to break into Gotham theatrical circles. Their efforts meet every grotesque obstacle known to the skillful playwright. Mashers wander through their flat at all times of the day and night, blasts from a new subway running underneath shatter their sleep, drunks peer at them through a street-level window, and a flabby pro football players from upstairs irons their clothes and sleeps in the kitchen. Six amorous Portuguese naval cadets finally cap the climax with a conga party that assumes riot proportions and nets Eileen a night...
This cast manages to shatter the traditional aloofness of Boston audiences. Every time Manningham tries to strangle his wife and is foiled by the entrance of Sergeant Rough, a lengthy sigh rises from the orchestra and the balconies. At several points the staid Bostonians booed the villain and shouted directions at the hero...
...weapon which is mighty and shall prevail. Entitled Our Secret Weapon (Sunday, 7 p.m., E.W.T.), the program has nothing secret or even subtle about it. A CBS announcer reads a blatant statement from a recent Axis broadcast, then Rex ("Lie Detective") Stout uses it as a clay pigeon to shatter with the truth. A typical exchange...
Despite the formal division, the volume is an organic whole, fitted together with the care of a Byzantine mosaic-maker. Here is a historian who deals intimately and knowingly of economics, ethics, and politics, and who is able to shatter the artificial barriers between them. Here is a Briton with the moral and intellectual courage to admit that his nation has lost her position of world leadership. Here, above all else, is an academic man without an academic mind...