Word: asphalting
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...best director, the National Board named Scripter-Director John Huston (for MGM's The Asphalt Jungle), and as best actor, Alec Guinness (for his eight-ply role in the British Kind Hearts and Coronets). The best foreign movie, according to the board, was The Titan, a Swiss-photographed art film, re-edited by craftsmen in the U.S., starring the works of Michelangelo. The New York Critics gave the foreign-film laurels to the Pagnol-Renoir-Rossellini omnibus Ways of Love...
...back of the 7th Avenue South branch of the New York Public Library, on the western margin of Greenwich Village, is a large area covered with asphalt, suphemistically called Hudson Park. It has a softball field in one corner and a drinking fountain in the other. It is a good place to play ball...
...difference in the 480 undergraduates who have already registered automobiles and the 116 who have reserved spaces at the new, asphalt, Western Avenue lot is that many are commuters, but the larger group consists of student who have made what one official termed, "more expensive, and generally inferior, arrangements...
When Curli flourished his flag at the start, 39 speed-happy cyclists roared off around the treacherous four-mile asphalt course. Soon, as expected, the race settled down to a duel between Italy's Umberto Masetti, 23, riding a Gilera, and Britain's Geoffrey Duke, 27, on his Norton. For the world title, Masetti held a slim lead, 22 points to 19, based on six previous races this summer (eight points for first, six for second, four for third, etc.). In the final at Monza, all Masetti needed to clinch the 1950 title was to finish no worse...
...even when Hesselberg begged for it by plaguing the visitor with a harpoon. As for mere sharks, they worried no one: it became sport to haul them aboard by the tail with the bare hand. The Kon-Tiki's food kept well, stored below the deck in asphalt-coated containers, and seafood was a glut in the galley. Flying fish, good eating, practically flung themselves at the frying...