Word: barely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unorthodox is La Cava's method of making a picture. He believes that the screen is not (like the stage) an acting medium, that a scene plays itself. La Cava begins a picture by throwing away the script, keeping the bare outline of the plot and developing it spontaneously around the personalities of the actors he has selected. If a scene rings true, it is right; if not, the actor should not be forced to play it. He writes most of the new script himself...
Lincoln and his Cabinet received the news of the Union defeat at Scott's headquarters. Then "above the hissing of the gas jets . . . another sound seemed to fill the bare little room-the roar of a mob in flight." "Hour after hour, the crowds stood . . . the Avenue solidly packed from the Capitol to the Treasury [over a mile]. In the small hours of the morning, they were still there; the population of a doomed city, listening for the thundering guns, the pounding cavalry, the shouts of the victorious rebel army." It never came. The Second Invasion. Instead, McClellan came...
...Diego, Mrs. Julia Dowell, commander in chief of California's women's ambulance & transport corps, ordered her girls to wear lisle. "There will be no bare legs and no silk stockings in this corps," said Mrs. Dowell...
...Said a Manhattan psychologist, Dr. William Moulton Marston: "The most glamorous legs are bare, suntanned. But the most enticing stocking is one of mesh...
...essential to flight. The U.S. in the air seemed to be equal to any test put upon it: the U.S. had enough technical experience, enough trained men, enough facilities for research, to meet any challenge. And so-though many a reader felt he would rather beat Hitler with his bare hands than master FORTUNE'S graphs-the U.S. that emerged seemed self-confident, capable, even in the face of a world fighting its first great...