Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outsider. In Phoenix, Ariz., Harold Sloper told the court that ever since his wife persuaded him four years ago that they should move in with her former husband, everybody in the house had been treating him like a boarder...
Eames' opposition started a year ago when the person elected regional vice-chairman at the national convention was not confirmed at the regional assembly, largely because of the opposition of Jaffa and Houghteling...
More than a quarter of a century ago, Robert J. Flaherty, weighted down with camera equipment, slogged into the Eskimo country of north Canada and came back with a film called Nanook of the North. Now both the film and its maker are full of years and honors. Nanook has been shown all over the world, and Flaherty is known as the father of the documentary film...
...Years ago Flaherty said: "I try to make my films a revelation of a country, and of the people who live in it ... There is a kernel of greatness in all peoples . . . it is up to the film maker to find the one incident, or even the one movement that makes it clear...
...Will Darken It is often too loosely constructed, frequently lingers with characters who don't help the story along, but it weighs with considerable accuracy and tenderness the half-articulated impulses of disenchanted people who believe, with Author Maxwell, that "the apple had gone bad a long time ago, and slugs had eaten the rose, that the hay had mildewed in the barn, and the last hope of fair dealing was lost in third-grade arithmetic...