Word: assets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what astronomers call a big star which appears suddenly and shines with great brilliance." Instead, Sanders became one of the best scene stealers in the business and one of Hollywood's more sinister personifications of Evil (Man Hunt, The Son of Monte Cristo). As Evil, Sanders' greatest asset has been a suggestion of cold intelligence and a nasty sneer. Hounding Evil, as The Saint and as The Falcon, has been duller work...
...gigantic time bomb, relentlessly, awesomely ticking. Over the place hung a pall of suspicion, bitterness, hatred. Management and labor wrangled, sparred and fought. Root of the trouble is the six-hour day started by management during the depression, now grimly held by the union as a labor "asset...
...other days, when sheer physical energy was less an asset, Knox often lost more votes than he gained. Once he charged that New Deal policies had brought the country to a state where "no life insurance policy is secure; no savings account is safe." Reporters had a field day badgering Republican Herbert Hoover, a director of New York Life Insurance Co., about supporting a man with such a low opinion of insurance...
...first time since Dec. 7 a priceless intangible asset finally came into U.S. hands: the attack on the Solomon Islands had snatched the offensive from the Japanese in the Pacific...
...play Bette Davis' daughter in The Little Foxes. The reward for her performance was a choice role in Mrs. Miniver. Says William Wyler, who directed both pictures: "She can do nothing wrong. . . . I've never had less trouble directing anyone. She has the one best asset any actor can have: she has never committed an error in acting taste...