Word: breathes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glenn reports that one problem is still baffling the special-effects experts: how to make an actor's breath look frosty in an outdoor winter scene. Glenn thought he had solved it by wrapping a piece of dry ice in a sponge and placing it in the actor's mouth: "It worked fine. The actor looked like an express locomotive huffing and puffing on an upgrade." But. regretfully, the idea had to be abandoned because "there was too much danger of the actor's burning his mouth...
...Glynis Johns, Joan Rice, Bobby Driscoll-not for their box-office rating or sexual decibel, but rather as friends are chosen, for their good human faces and pleasant ways. As a result, each of the pictures was just what a children's classic is supposed to be: a breath of healthy air blown in from the warm meadows of faraway and long...
...injected dogs are watched with eagle-eyed care. Their urine and feces are examined with sensitive instruments to determine how fast the radioactive matter is being excreted. Sometimes the cages are airtight, so that the dogs' radioactive breath can be measured too. Radioactive wastes are enclosed in concrete and buried far out on a Utah desert...
Soon Joe McCarthy was back in the hearing room. "As soon as I catch my breath," Joe whispered in Mundt's ear, : want to make a statement." Said Mundt: "It's not warranted. It will be unfortunate, Joe." Joe snapped back: "They have been shooting at me, and I've got to get back at them...
...taste for adventure books continued strong throughout the year. Men who climbed mountains, dived below the surface of the sea or went exploring the jungle wrote books almost before they had caught their breath. All year there were books about foreign and national affairs, but it was hard to find real eye-openers or mind-stretchers among them. The literary critics, humorists and personal essayists seemed to be hibernating...