Word: omitting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...approaching professional finish . . . she communicates almost nothing of the music she presents ... It is an extremely unpleasant duty to record such unhappy facts about so honestly appealing a person. But as long as Miss Truman sings as she . . . does. . . we seem to have no recourse unless it is to omit comment on her programs altogether...
...resume answers. You have held me to $25 [cable tolls], so will omit details of any action or actions that Hemingway has participated in. His bad knee was acquired by an enemy Minenwerfer explosion which blew off the right knee...
...lively, bright, sprightly Novelist Baldwin omit flowers...
...second half of the book covers the proceedings before the House Un American Activities Committee in 1948 and in the New York trials in 1949-1950. The author's failure here is a different one: in their desire to keep the book to size they have had to omit material, but their omissions have not been judicious. For example, seven pages are allotted to copious quotation of prosecutor Tom Murphy's summation, in the first trial. Defense attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker made some significant point in his summation, too, but one can not tell this from the single page...
...Earl Godwin, who seldom raises his voice to dispute the President, replied: "Sir . . . these gentlemen feel [that the Krock interview] is a reflection on every bureau chief and reporter in Washington." Retorted Truman: It was nothing of the kind. Another reporter wondered whether the President had intended to omit the "damn" in "say what he pleases." Said the President: Yes, but he would put it in if they wanted him to. When the President tried to change the subject again, Doris Fleeson, whose syndicated column appears in the Fair Dealing New York Post, stuck to the old one. Said...