Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he rams his locomotive through a stop signal. Demoted to a yard job that destroys the fag end of his pride, Andrea scabs during a strike, estranging himself from friends and family. Later, he suffers a heart attack and lives just long enough to mend the ties that bind, in a gay, tearful Christmas reunion at home...
Brazil's doughty President Humberto Castello Branco is caught in a bind. He has promised to hold gubernatorial elections in eleven states (out of 22) in October and a presidential election next year; his revolution, he says, "is not afraid of the ballot box." But because Castello Branco has a scruple against outlawing the opposition, one of the contenders for votes will be the Brazilian Labor Party, the power behind the inflationist, leftist regime that Castello Branco overthrew last year. The President is counting on electoral courts to use the new Ineligibilities Law to keep off the ballot candidates...
...Sons of Katie Elder are Old Indestructible John Wayne and Old Impossible Dean Martin, plus a couple of young co-stars named Michael Anderson Jr. and Earl Holliman. They all come back to Clearwater, Texas, for their Ma's buryin' and find themselves in a mighty rough bind with some bad guys who have killed Pa Elder and are trying to take over the town. After the gunsmoke clears, the wrongdoers have what they deserve; the raucous Elder boys have a new image; and Katie's empty rocking chair rocks happily away to underline what Paramount Pictures...
...Grinding Bind. At the same time, Ho is experiencing ever greater factionalism within his own Lao Dong Party. Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh and Party Secretary Le Duan tug toward Peking, while Defense Minister Giap and Premier Pham Van Dong lean toward Moscow. This leads many observers to wonder if Ho has real control over his country. Actually, Ho is too supple to be drawn into murderous internecine party battle. He remains above the raging policy debates; then when the contestants are weary and the options laid out, he tips the scales with his own view...
...experience and agility, Ho is now caught in a grinding bind. Neither Moscow nor Peking will put up with him as a purely Vietnamese patriot; each wants him in its camp. The West cannot countenance his Communist expansionism for fear that it will eventually inundate the rest of Southeast Asia. It will take a lot more than his guile and staying power to emerge a victor in Southeast Asia...