Word: barse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yet Gandhi's weapon contained a measurable threat of violence in India. When Gandhi fasted, Britons sometimes dared not keep him in jail, lest a massive anger at his death in their hands engulf India. "I always get my best bargains behind prison bars," he once chuckled. When Gandhi...
Movies have always been expert at picturing cities, but Treasure excels most of them in the streets, park benches, eateries, bars and flophouses that are the backgrounds for its opening reels. The main characters make most so-called simple men in the movies look two-dimensional and sentimentalized. In the...
Ready, Set, Go. The barflies campaign evidently started when Hearst, who disapproves of women in bars, called up the Los Angeles Examiner's Editor Ray T. Van Ettisch from his Beverly Hills villa. As the campaign got rolling, there was a spate of headlines like BABY ABANDONED BY BARFLY...
in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars. . . .
After 20 years of test and experiment, television finally moved out of the laboratory and into 170,000 houses and bars. From comparatively nothing, television grew into a $100,000,000 industry giving Philco's President John Ballantyne reason to predict: "1948 should see 500,000 television sets [made...