Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gradually and uneasily, however, they approach and finally achieve a meeting in the realm of normal human temperature. They are helped along by their compound jealousy over a wolf in refugee's clothing (Carl Esmond) and Mr. Tracy's former sweetheart, who appears only insofar as Miss Hepburn malignantly, funnily parodies her mannerisms, which is appearance enough. On the sidelines the widow's boozy cousin (Keenan Wynn) and a man-chaser vaguely identified as a real-estate agent (Lucille Ball) hang around with little to do but be likable, which they seem to find easy...
...there is a great deal more than opportunism in Tory support for Lord Wool-ton's plans. The relatively youthful, forward-looking left wing of the Party-the Tory Reform Committee-which believes in the practical approach to progress, looks upon them with favor. The big industrialists, who have largely succeeded the old aristocracy as the backbone of the Tory Party, are also more than halfwilling...
...decision on whether to give major aid to Russian reconstruction is therefore a choice between promoting faster Russian recovery or faster German recovery. With full aid from the U.S., the U.S.S.R. might in three to five years regain her 1939 production but would probably take several decades to approach U.S. levels...
...Give every pilot in the air constant, automatic reports of his own position and those of approaching planes, warn him of his approach to mountains and other potential collision dangers...
...long-haired and hollow-cheeked as ever, 157-lb. Gunder the Wunder had added an American "O.K." to his vocabulary and, more important, he had a brand-new public-relations approach. Far from being the uncooperative, stubborn Swede who visited the U.S. two years ago, this time he seemed bent on pleasing. Said he to reporters in his best Garbo accent: "Because you have been waiting so long for me ... I shall run Saturday" (just 50 hours after stepping off the ship). He knew, of course, that it meant almost certain defeat in the I.C.4-A Invitation Mile...