Word: bigly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southampton, was riding out the Channel gale as a tight ship should. Suddenly, out of the night, a vast shape reared above the tiny vessel. With a gasp the helmsman spun the wheel. A wall of water smashed the Sea Witch broadside, hurling her clear of a big freighter, which "slid by like a cliff." Looking up, the skipper (Charlton Heston) saw no lights on the freighter, no sign of life on the bridge. On the stern he read the rusty legend...
...just before his death he experienced a transfiguration in which the heroic drunk and the dissolving genius were transformed and redeemed in a last great love. The notion is so silly that not even the moviemakers could convince themselves it was true. Scarcely a line in Sy (The Big Country) Bartlett's script rings true, and some of them are almost ridiculously false. ("How did a girl as pretty as you get to be the biggest witch in Hollywood?" a famous actress shrieks at Sheilah. "Only the second biggest," Sheilah purrs back, looking as if she has just said...
Demand for the new models is strong. One big factor is the powerful sales appeal of the compact cars, which account for 25% of total 1960 models produced so far. The orders are pouring in so fast that Ford last week made plans to shift over its Metuchen (N.J.) Mercury plant to produce Ford's Falcon and the new Comet, scheduled to make its appearance next spring. Ford will not cut back on Mercury -other Mercury plants will take up the slack. It just needs a third production facility to turn out all the compacts the U.S. public apparently...
...Judah Holstein, 32, of Los Angeles, last week faced the harrowing test that comes to almost every young working wife: her first big dinner party. A top Hollywood secretary (to Producer Stanley Kramer), Selma Holstein had to grapple with phones, mountains of paper, and hubbubing actors and directors all day, rush off at 6 p.m. to prepare a dinner for 14. To complicate matters, she had to go through her paces at her sister's house because her own apartment has no dining room, only a small kitchenette...
...cook's colossus is a job for a man with tried and tested ingredients. The man: Charles Greenough Mortimer, 59, the solidly packaged (5 ft. 10 in., 195 lbs.) chairman and chief executive officer of General Foods. The ingredients: a mind as restless as a bubbling stew, a big pinch of Madison Avenue savvy, a full measure of shrewd selling experience. All this is mixed with an insatiable curiosity about the U.S. woman-what food she buys, what she would like to buy, and how it can be made easier to serve...