Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later, precisely at midnight, the lights flashed on again, and as a crowd of 50,000 voices shouted Merdeka (freedom), the Union Jack slowly fluttered down to be replaced by a red, white and blue flag very like that of the U.S., save that instead of 48 stars it bore the single star and crescent of Islam. After 83 years of British rule, Malaya was an independent nation...
...with a tape of Richard (High Wind in Jamaica] Hughes's 1924 play Danger, the first radio play ever produced. Though it was a disappointing debut ("A number of those English accents are so phony, you know," explains Ritchard), the balance of the first week's plays bore out the host's claim to a "varied diet" of entertainment. "The show has no rigid format," says Ritchard, "for there is always an audience for anything provocative, intelligent...
...high curiosity value, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is hardly that. It may even remind some readers of the story of the man who complained to his doctor not so much because he had the habit of talking to himself, but that he was such a damned bore. Fortunately, Pinfold's voices were scripted by a novelist who may be many things, but never a bore...
Turning to the second facet of directing, Guthrie said a director "must not bore the people involved. And the biggest bore is waste of time. The director should be scrupulously punctual himself, and insist on it from everybody else. If Sir Lawrence Olivier is late, down with his pants and give him six of the best with your slipper...
...stagnant, and overcommitted-by as much as 37% of its foreign trade-to the Soviet bloc). Addressing his new one-party Parliament early in the week, Nasser seemed almost too subdued to be true. He summarized his regime's homefront achievements ("Our greatest gain is hope"), and bore down on the need to "build, build, build, to make up for the past, to face the future." Said Nasser: "We must always remember that our people are increasing by more than 300,000 new citizens every year...