Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wallace ("Beak") Beakley steamed the carrier Essex and four destroyers from the Middle East, the big carrier Midway and the heavy cruiser Los Angeles from the West Coast. U.S. fighters rolled onto the ready line on Formosa, and Tactical Air Force sent out from the states a reinforcing squadron along with air cargo support planes from the Military Transport Service-all meaningful public warning that the U.S. means business...
Dovetailed Minds. That began Milton Eisenhower's long career in government. Within two years, after due service in Edinburgh, Milton was in Washington as assistant to Secretary of Agriculture Jardine, whom President Coolidge named to his Cabinet in 1925. And shortly after that, along came big brother Ike, then an obscure Army major called to Washington to write a guidebook for the American Battle Monuments Commission...
...candle finally gets pointed in the right direction-south-and the rest of the film rattles along in an unpredictable Tin Lizzie of adventurous comedy, underscored by the slowly developing admiration of the colonel for his shy, uncannily ingenious passenger. Later, when the colonel comes swaggering into a German trap, pontifically confident that he can outwit the whole Nazi army, the picture explodes into a mock-chase climax that is sentimental, funny, and equally satisfying on both counts...
...Along Humbert's and Lolita's way, there are scenes of horrible irony. CHILDREN UNDER 14 FREE, says a sign at one hotel. But the most truly horrible part of the book is the intimate fashion in which the reader is made to see how from a monstrous relationship a kind of shadow of a good life emerges. Humbert, the false father, often becomes a truly tender pseudo parent; Lolita, the perverted child, becomes a true innocent. In the end-to Humbert's great agony-she is pregnant and happy with a young, goonlike husband...
...interest in nymphets. To get sub-teen patter right, he took rides in a school bus. He obviously also learned much about roadside America. Says he: "I love motels. I would like to have a chain of motels-made of marble.. I would put one every ten minutes along the highway, and I would travel from one to another with my butterfly...