Word: boils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ingredient No. 2. The pot was really brought to a sizzling boil by Preston Tucker, a small-time promoter with big ideas of making autos in the Chicago plant. He had agreed in September to lease it from the War Assets Administration. But NHA had ordered the plant to go to Lustron. In a frantic effort to block this, Tucker came up with a dark tale. His story: a lawyer approached him, just before the National Housing Administration ordered the plant turned over to Lustron, and promised to block the deal if Tucker 1) gave him $400,000 in stock...
...Jacques Preévert (Hôtel du Nord, Le Jour se Léve). U.S. moviegoers, unaccustomed to concentrated mixtures of sex, cynicism and murky symbolism, may enjoy the picture's sharply witty individual scenes and wonder what they all add up to. The overall theme might boil down to this: "Life is a tragicomedy, whether viewed from an expensive seat or from the peanut gallery. Better just chuckle and enjoy it-if you can manage to hold back the tears...
...China's National Assembly, five middle-aged men waited in the reception room of a snug, red brick house in Nanking. Five nonpartisan moderates, they had come-in a political atmosphere taut as a ripe boil-to seek audience with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, at his home...
...professors; and sure enough, Wellesley had produced a candidate, although not a professor. The candidate was a college woman named Martha Sharp. But she had never worried Joe. "Do you want to take your troubles to a little girl?" Joe asked the Portuguese workers at a Fall River clam boil.* It wasn't necessary to say much more than that. Joe was not worried about his district. What he was tensely waiting for were the results which would tell him whether the Republicans all across the U.S. were back in power...
...Crimson boil and bubble...