Word: lightest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actors' portrayal of what is inside the characters; his plays are characterized by uniform sets and only slight changes of properties. Vakhtangov Theater is at the opposite pole: it stresses pageantry and theatricality. Finally, the Red Army Theater has a broad base of popularity. This is, accordingly, the lightest, gayest and noisiest of Russian theaters...
...Speaker John Nance Garner of Texas, before whom the microphone was placed, abolished it the second day it was in operation. Wishing a short snort after a rugged session, "Cactus Jack" heard that a member was about to deliver a "special order" speech. Said Speaker Garner, forgetting that his lightest word could be heard all over the chamber: "Now what is that son of a bitch going to talk about?" After adjournment, Speaker Garner told House electricians: "Get that damned thing off of there! I don't need it, and I won't have it ! " New Zealand Does...
...State for Air, reported that during the war 26,000 German and Italian planes had been shot down in combat, not counting the Russian front. In the very week of Sir Archibald's report, the western Allies flew an estimated 30,000 sorties over Europe; on the lightest day of that week, 3.600 U.S. and British planes were...
...picture-length without once tipping the audience a wink or an apology is rather novel. More traditional kinds of suspense involve saboteurs, spies, counterspies and a plot to blow up Halifax. There is also a stunningly funny old comic (Margaret Rutherford), playing the sort of tetched, tweedy Englishwoman whose lightest whisper is a yawp. As a spy-thriller, the picture would be no better than pleasantly, mediocre but for the unshakable British talent for investing bit-players at telephones, extras at lifeboat drill, and even the leading players with vitality, intelligence and a nodding acquaintance with actual life...
...general staff of technicians, with U.S. industry-and consumers- regimented at the bottom (A New Deal, The Economy of Abundance). Now he raises his voice just as lustily for the widest possible free enterprise. The Federal Government would in effect underwrite a free U.S. economy, keeping the lightest of fingers on the controls...