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...government in eight years of intermittent fighting has succeeded in reducing to dispersed guerrillaism five major rebellious factions, including two varieties of Communists (White Flag Communists and Red Flag Trotskyites). Simultaneously, U Nu and his Socialists pushed through a land-reform program and began to lay the groundwork for industrialization...
...organizations and making his own wheels do the better turning." As majority leader of the state senate in 1944, he organized legislators and other politicians in the Second Congressional District so effectively that when he announced for the House, the incumbent simply retired. As a Congressman, Clements laid the groundwork for his successful campaign for governor, then used his time in the governor's mansion to set up the campaign that put him in the Senate...
...with his prize pupil, "B.B." calls Walker "my favorite biped." In 1935 Walker was appointed fine arts director at the American Academy in Rome; there he married the daughter of British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond, the late Earl of Perth. He came home in 1938 to help lay the groundwork for the National Gallery...
Dream into Reality? All of this was the groundwork for a radical restyling of the Packard line in 1957 to look like Packard's dream car, the Predictor, with sliding roof panels, disappearing headlights and radar brakes. With its advanced new car, Packard hoped to be able to compete with the Big Three and get solidly into the black. But when the time came to order retooling for the new model, said one Packard official sadly, "our money ran out." Now Packard plans only a face lifting of its models for next year. But if the merger goes through...
Balancing Willy and Biff during the first act, the production builds the groundwork of final understanding at the expense of naturalistic melodrama, and hence loses a certain element of blatant dynamism. This preparation, however, results in a shocking comprehension which heightens the power of the second act, and leads the audience--as far as is possible--to a complete grasp of Miller's play. To force the ultimate meaning from Willy Loman's death and still preserve its impact is a feat of dramatic sensitivity and talent. The HDC has done...