Word: unfolding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accompanied Willkie on his travels saw the incredible story unfold. Some of them became as hardened to fabulous occurrences as a magician's assistant. Some, refusing to believe, fixed their eyes only on the polls and political indexes...
...dent was widened to a pocket. The pocket became a bulge when other columns crushed through: below Namur near Dinant, Givet, Mèziéres; above Namur at Gembloux. Flinging power behind power to the full extent of their resources. Hitler's generals watched their plans unfold...
...Less agile than Acrobat Frees was A. L. Bedel, built like the beer barrels he formerly inspected for the U. S. Government. To attract crowds he hired "The Great Chandu," a magician. A Chandu come-on: to tear up a picture of a bass, unfold the torn bits to exhibit an intact picture of a bigger bass, and announce: "If you like this trick, vote for Bedel instead of the fish...
...marble-eyed, pudgy Circuit Judge Thomas J. Rowe handed down a decision dismissing extortion charges against Putty Nose Brady. (Big John had already been acquitted on one charge, has another hanging over him.) The Post-Dispatch editorialized scornfully: "Those hardy spectators, who gathered in the hope that drama . . . would unfold, saw what fell little short of a burlesque on justice...
...mate, the court-room scene begins. It involves a dead-locked jury and a new witness before everything winds up happily, the mystery is unraveled, and the newspaper headlines proclaim the verdict. Amazingly enough, "The Man Who Wouldn't Talk" turns out to be fair entertainment. The plot may unfold slowly and the suspense be nil. But it for that reason creates a mildly pleasing sort of complaisant interest--relaxing and free from extremes of emotion--that Hollywood never aims at and seldom produces...