Word: cast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year of holding operations. The economy recovered its health; the vexed question of racial integration lay unsolved beneath the surface, but did not erupt into violence. A nation's youth went hula-hooping its uncomplicated way, and science, medicine and industry explored new breakthroughs. But the stones cast at Richard Nixon in Latin America and the Democratic sweep in the congressional elections made manifest a widespread discontent with U.S. policy, foreign and domestic...
...barriers designed to protect domestic industry cast a pall of uncertainty over Canada's oil future, should be revoked. "If oil is needed for defense, there is no legitimate distinction between the wells of North Dakota and Texas, of Alberta and Saskatchewan...
...desperation napped a leg gingerly over the side. That slowed the racer, but a senatorial foot was bent under a wheel, and over went the bug, Keef and all. Shaken by his joy ride, the Senator checked in later at Bethesda (Md.) Naval Hospital, where the medics plastered a cast around badly sprained ligaments, a dislocated kneecap. Obvious upshot: no racer for young David...
While East Berlin's Turandot emphasized the oriental barbarity of the libretto, La Scala's version brought out its fairytale quality and its atmosphere of Eastern mystery. The sets were high and airy, often lighted with foggy uncertainty to give the illusion of immensely stretching space. The cast moved with the highly stylized, mincing grace of the traditional Chinese theater. The opera's few moments of pure horror, as when the executioner carries in the head of the Prince of Persia in Act I, were so skillfully blended into the fabric of stage movement that they were...
Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). The Hollywood Pied Piper's new Story of Robin Hood, filmed in authentic English underbrush with an all-English cast headed by Richard Todd as the harmless Hood. First of a two-part legend...