Word: boiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slow Boil. In Birmingham, England, Jean Russell complained to the judge that her theft of two eggs had cost her 17 pounds-the ?10 sterling which she had been fined plus 7 lbs. in weight in stewing over her trial...
...busy at the real thing to throw much paraphernalia into make-believe, Director Vladimir Petrov and his associates boil their war down pretty close to its essence: a duel of mind and spirit between Napoleon, who understood little except warfare, and the apparently sleepy Field Marshal Kutuzov, who understood his country and his people so profoundly that he all but embodied them. It was Kutuzov almost alone who realized that a Napoleon who had attained his goal, yet could neither engage in battle nor negotiate peace, was only a demoralized, helpless trespasser...
...this week the Allies had smashed deep into the Low Countries and U.S. forces probed at the outer hedgehogs of the Siegfried Line. This week battles would boil on German soil...
Edward G. Robinson, playing the part of an insurance claims investigator, a Mr. Keyes, now appears on the scene and stirs the plot into a boil. Events follow each other in rapid succession, and before the audience knows it the picture is at an end--and a conclusion, may we say, that is exceptionally trite and uninteresting...
...vigorous private enterprise, its most striking features are its tax proposals. Economist Ruml slapped it down on the public counter at the psychological moment: just as Congress is preparing to take up the subject, just when many other people's ideas on the subject are coming to a boil...