Word: barest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salvage-masters off the treacherous Florida Keys of a century ago, the film is actually just a vehicle for every trick of camera and color, every bluff of gargantuan settings, every cliche of plot and dialogue in DeMille's too familiar repertoire. "Reap the Wild Wind" lacks even the barest spark of originality; it is slow, sticky and indescribably dull. Its possibilities as melodrama are almost completely submerged in an orgy of gross spectacle...
There has been a bad lag in the actual movement of U.S. war material to Russia and Turkey. The long-tried patience of Joseph Stalin-smothered with promises, fed with a trickle-is near the cracking point. Turkey, which unofficially promises to go anti-Axis for the barest trifle of Lend-Lease aid, is now getting desperately nervous, because no U.S. aid arrives. The President, seeing the Lend-Lease clearance papers, takes it for granted that the goods have been shipped, does not know that they have been sidetracked by the U.S. Army & Navy for other uses...
Graduation is the nemosis of Coach Jacko Mikkola's Varsity track team-1941 edition. It has left the barest skeleton of a cinder squad from which to construct a formidable aggregation able to carry the Crimson colors to victory in the wearying spring schedule that opens with a B.C. practice meet Saturday, faces Dartmonth's powerful Big Green on May 10, and roaches a climax with the Yale contest...
...hoping to raise a minimum of $1,200 as a modest contribution to the ten million dollar fund which the Red Cross needs to lend effective help. A supply ship has already been sent to France; but many more must cross the ocean to provide for only the barest needs of an estimated five million refugees trekking the roads of Northern France and Belgium...