Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warrior was fascinated with the new .30-caliber Belgian rifle which his government had just adopted for the British army. He had one brought to his office, learned to strip and reassemble it, demonstrated to colleagues how to swing the butt and thrust the bayonet in mock combat. One bitterly cold afternoon, he bundled himself up, spent half an hour on a windswept rifle range, firing the rifle...
Wicked Woman (Greene-Rouse; United Artists) is a reeking little slice of life from the butt end of that infinite salami. A tawdry blonde named Billie Nash (Beverly Michaels) is dumped off a bus, bag & baggage, somewhere in Southern California. Next day she wriggles her way into a job wrestling tables in a local bar. A few days later she is wrestling with the boss (Richard Egan). Between holds, she persuades him to sell the bar from under his wife's nose and run away with her to Mexico. Since the wife's nose is usually stuck...
...failures to date does not lie in an enumeration of specific events or accomplishments as much as in the position it has come to occupy in the mind of the undergraduate. With the possible exceptions of Eliot House, Cronin's, and the General Education program, Lamont is the butt of more jokes and the locale of more stories than any other Harvard institution. Whether he loves it or loathes it, almost every student is acutely aware of it. In its first five years it has become a legend...
...Jalna story has special appeal, because when Author de la Roche first began slicing the Whiteoak loaf it never occurred to her that it was going to have to last for a quarter of a century. Now she is obliged to do some fine cutting off the butt end. The Whiteoak Brothers is about Jalna in 1923, but as there have already been eight books about Jalna since 1923, De la Roche fans will have a grand time chuckling over the brothers' efforts to evade destinies that have long since been translated into 14 languages...
Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, butt of many a Washington wisecrack (e.g., "He should learn to keep a civil foot in his mouth"), showed last week that he has enough sense of humor to see a joke about himself. In a speech to the National Press Club, the former General Motors president told of a U.S. Senator who needed a new car. The Senator consulted a General Motors executive, who suggested getting a car with an automatic transmission. Said the Senator: "Well, maybe that would be all right, but when there is no clutch pedal, where...