Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purpose of confusing the public?" Mr. Hoover's own statement asserts that "the FBI has less than 170 telephone taps in existence, confined to internal security cases throughout the entire United States and its possessions." The tapping of 170 telephones can involve the private conversations of a great many individuals who do not in the least imperil internal security. Moreover the Communications Act does not authorize the tapping of 170 telephones; it does not authorize the tapping of any telephones by anyone for any reason whatsoever...
...sensual, impetuous spirit of the Merimee novel, although its score uses excerpts from Bizet's opera. Rence Jeanmaire is a seductive and fiery Carmen. When she is on the stage the downfall of Don Jose, danced by Petit, becomes completely believable. Jeanmaire and Petit dance together with great smoothness and polish; they are both dancers of the first rank. Serge Perrault and Belinda Wright dance supporting parts with skill...
...bath water . . . pours from the taps with a great splash of sound, and as it runs you sing above it . . . It's funny, Maria would think, soaping herself with a loofah, that in the evening, if you have a bath, your tummy is round and rather full, but in the morning it is flat as a board, and hard...
...leaves them to catch up with Lizzie's latest doings, The Peabody Sisters begins to hum with good works and intellectual vibrations. Liz was a prodigious worker who was seldom paid for her effort. For a time, she was William Ellery Channing's secretary, but the great preacher apparently never thought to pay her except in inspiration. The Dial, which she published and Emerson edited, was a financial flop. Her Boston bookstore was for years the meeting place of the literary greats of the day, but book sales were most discouraging...
...great-grandson of James Laughlin, co-founder of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp...