Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young man just turned 30 and one who has encountered even occasionally in my own circle of friends so-called "liberals," ultra-left-wingers, apologists and the like; let me say that the young men & women of America should well take note not only of the content of Chambers' expose, but rather initiate something concrete in ridding our government, and the present Administration's crumbling bureaucracy of Communists who are trying to destroy us from within...
...took away a frightening mental snapshot. "[When] he started to speak I could hardly believe my senses," wrote Leo Lania in the United Nations World. "Suddenly I felt as though I were back again in the late '205 in Berlin, at a Nazi meeting. It was not the content of Schumacher's speech that startled me. I had no objection to what he had to say . . . but the way he spoke was simply quite frightening. Unconsciously, he seemed to have acquired Hitler's terminology, his screeching mode of speech, his gestures and histrionic intonations . . . He barked like...
...feeble wit, or inordinate coarseness, some of these vulgarities may perhaps be attributed. But it seems in the majority of cases only sexually perverted men (to use the word carelessly) could have perpetrated such crudities. Imagination these drawings do not lack; but it is of a twisted nature and content that we presume no normally developed student could have concocted, even allowing for the merely stupid and gross person who customarily scribbles on toilet walls...
...woods and along North Elkhorn Creek, the present-day Elmendorf is the heart of what was once a vast 9,800-acre tract owned by James Ben Ali Haggin, fabulous copper baron. A farm of such scope could not exist in tax-ridden 1952, but most Lexington breeders are content to stress quality-and hope that the racing boom lasts forever...
...good novel might have been written on Miss Buck's theme, a good one on Ullman's. Neither writer has succeeded. Both are content with liberal formulas, stillborn characters, slipshod styles...