Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mass audience, Bell's show used live action, patches of stock film (shot in Japan, Australia, France, India), and animated gimmickery. As a bonus, it spared viewers interruptions for commercials. Often Sun was dulled by some too-precious UFA (Gerald McBoing Boing) cartoons, and the interplay between big, brash Mr. Sun and Father Time (spoken by the late Lionel Barrymore), Dr. Research (U.S.C.'s Shakespeare Scholar Dr. Frank Baxter) and a usually superfluous Fiction Writer (Actor Eddie Albert) was too often embarrassingly labored. But the photography, much of it shot through high-powered telescopes, was illuminating, especially...
...first-class temperament!" Nothing in this biography contradicts the judgment. F.D.R. played the presidency by ear, sometimes with real political virtuosity, as often as not with "a thin streak of cruelty.'' (Said Tammany Hall's Big Tim Sullivan in 1911 when F.D.R. was a brash young New York state senator: "This fellow is still young. Wouldn't it be safer to drown him before he grows up?") About economics Roosevelt knew little; in foreign affairs before World War II he was vacillating. But his political dexterity would have tickled Machiavelli, and his confidence and vitality astounded...
Except for his size, there is nothing small about brash, bouncy, blue-eyed, wisecracking Mike Todd. Confessing last week that Around the World had cost him $6,000,000, Showman Todd apologized, "I'm ashamed to admit it, it cost so little. Take The Ten Commandments. That cost $1,000,000 a commandment...
...First Game belonged to Maglie. Slaughter reached him for a single and then a brash youngster named Mickey Mantle clouted a two-run homer. Sal was magnificently unconcerned. The two last-minute victories with which he had ensured the Dodgers' pennant weighed heavily on his wrenched back. But he bent his wicked curve over the corners of the plate and he never made the same mistake twice. Slaughter calmly hit him three for five, but Sal struck out ten Yanks, stranded another nine on the bases. Behind him, the Dodgers piled up nine hits (including homers by Robinson...
...good left arm held the Dodgers helpless, Slaughter pounded them to death with his bat. Old Enos began the game with a series batting average of .556; by the end of the day it was .583. The Yanks gave the Dodgers a run in the second inning, but brash Billy Martin got one right back with a home run. In the sixth, the Dodgers pushed Pee Wee Reese home from third after he walloped a resounding triple. Slaughter, his team behind once more, came to the plate with two men on and two out. He scowled at Pitcher Roger Craig...