Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Artists), the whodunit by Mickey Spillane which has sold 3,500,000 copies in soft covers and put sadism within reach of the average pocketbook, has now been made into a movie which should reassure all readers who think that Spillane's brutal yarns are just a bloody bore. The film, the first to be made of a Spillane work, is so triumphantly bad as to foster the hope that it may be the last...
...Jury Did Not Believe. With Dagmar's corpse on his hands. Fabian looked around the roadside for signs of a struggle. Finding none, he reasoned that the body had been dumped from a car. The Yard's pathologist bore him out. "She had been seated upright . . . after she died," he said. "Seated in a motor car?" asked Fabian. "Something less upholstered," the doctor suggested. Out went Fabian's order: check all trucks that used the road between...
...North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), whose Supreme Commander is an American: General Alfred M. Gruenther. West Germany has no army, and as a defeated enemy, may not legally rearm until a peace treaty has been signed and sealed. To make German arms palatable to Europeans who still bore the teethmarks of Nazi aggression, a Frenchman (ex-Premier René Pleven) suggested EDC, which would add German strength to NATO, but still enable the West to keep an eye on German militarism...
...Mayor Fiorello La Guardia was made public during Miller's trial. The report, dated April 4, 1944, noted that 28 detectives and policewomen had become dues-paying members of the party and had supplied daily reports on its inner workings. "So deeply did some of our investigators bore into the party," it stated, "that one of them acted as a courier between the American Communist Party and an agent in Portugal...
Wealth v. Brains. At home, Silvio amused himself by decorating the gardens of his villa with a weird menagerie of statuary whose faces bore a startling resemblance to the stuffier citizens of Contrada. Nevertheless, most of the villagers were content to accept Don Silvio as a wealthy, if eccentric, benefactor...