Word: objects
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...defense did not try very strongly to refute Miller's and Helpern's statements. Instead it continually rose to object that these statement were being presented as now evidence, and not as rebuttal...
...Object Lesson. The listening audience can thank Godfrey for removing much of the starch and stuffiness from radio. He found the medium bustling with split-second efficiency, and slowed a portion of it to a comfortable walk. He helped clean up the high-pressure babble of machine-made commercials, and proved to a nervous, self-conscious industry that informality pays...
...hopes, eventually, to write a syndicated newspaper column and make a movie. "I'd like to do a movie about the joy of flying or the joy in animals or meteorology-something with a great object lesson. People buy my products because they believe that I'm telling the truth. And people like to follow the example of a fellow they believe in, isn't that right? If I could do a movie that would teach kids tolerance and not to be smart alecks, then...
...early '40's. Columnists in recent weeks have warned that the Communist Party, realizing its unpopularity today, is returning to the popular front notion which gained for its such important victories as the acquisition of atomic secrets and the fall of Eastern Europe. Let us remember that the object of JRC and HYP participation in distributing these petitions is to discredit our armed forces and to ease communist infiltration into them if possible. the ultimate purpose: aid to the steady tide of Soviet expansionism. I do not care to aid or give comfort to anyone who keeps such...
...some of the speeches still ring with the old rhetoric and the masterful irony, e.g., the 1944 defense of Fala: "I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself . . . But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog." And in the more formal addresses there are still passages that read as impressively as they sounded when they were first delivered: "The life of a man is threescore years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a Nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live...