Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Turks could make trouble for the German Army, and with help from Russia the Turks would not be averse to doing so. Stalin's tough problem has been whether to encourage Turkey to resist the Axis, at the price of concessions from Turkey that would make it a virtual Russian protectorate, or whether to sell Turkey out, at the price of territory in the Near East and (if Turkey should resist anyway) a share of Turkish territory...
There was little for Britons to do but evacuate. One of the young Legation men summed up many British defeats when he said: "If this turns out to be a virtual occupation, it would be hardly decent for us to stay...
...relations. Yet the principal attraction for extra-curricular work of this sort lies in informal lectures or discussion groups under authoritative speakers. Unlike the ill-fated American Civilization Plan, which had to compete with regular classes in U. S. history and literature, a Pan-American program would enjoy a virtual monopoly in its field. Little doubt exists that it would be generously supported, provided only that a suitable hour--probably at bi-weekly intervals in the early evening--is selected. An interesting addition to the program might be a talk by some of the members of the summer-cruise-course...
Converting so much talk into a film required virtual scrapping of the Behrman version. Scripters Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein proceeded to remodel Hero Gaylord Esterbrook (James Stewart) into a country bumpkin with an odd flair for bright comedy. His hesitant romance and marriage with Actress Linda Paige (Rosalind Russell) becomes a slapstick backstage burlesque containing the only fun in the film. From then on Epstein gets tangled with Behrman in a confusing hodgepodge of drawing-room wit heavily weighted with dramatic overtones...
...internal politics Don Ramón has social ideas that are far to the left of those of the elements that first supported the revolution. He has admitted many onetime Leftists into the Falange. He has organized syndicates in Spanish industry, giving virtual control to the workers - who to join the syndicates must be members of the Falange. The Falange runs the Auxilio Social, a nationwide social service supported by a sales tax, enforces Government-fixed prices of all food and clothing, distributes free milk to Fascist babies, supports orphanages that are brimful of war's victims, children. Serrano...