Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present, these segments of the population have fought their battles independently of one another. For the first time," President Johnson asserted, "they are learning to focus on widespread common needs and to throw the entire weight of their social and political influence behind measures to further their common needs...
...surprise) only after the Teheran conference. For some 20 years before that, Americans had known Stalin chiefly from a few carefully posed photographs which made him look tall, and from Soviet statues and paintings which were invariably heroic. To the western world Stalin was chiefly a face and a focus for disturbing rumors...
...Seeing You (Selznick-United Artists) is Hollywood's first attempt to focus on the predicament of a shell-shocked soldier, trying to find his way back to normal life. Good and moving as it sometimes is, it leaves much to be said which, for the sake of the many neuropsychiatric casualties who are already returning from the war, badly needs saying to American civilians. The picture's crucial weakness: it confronts its fumbling, humiliated, pitiful soldier Zack (Joseph Cotten) with a girl (Ginger Rogers) who, instead of being reasonably average, is also a decidedly special case. Zack...
Dean Hudnut was one of the judges who selected the winners of the recent contest for a plan for a better postwar Boston. This new expansion in instruction will focus its attention mainly upon the architectural improvements that are needed not only by Boston, but by many other cities...
...immediate focus are the weddings tomorrow at Appleton Chapel. Here's the very best wishes of the battalion to John Schirmer and our genial company commander, Sam Nikkel, who will follow one another into the proverbial bonds in the afternoon, starting...