Word: chokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...songs not only cloy, they choke, which must make them as much of a challenge to sing as to hear. In The Slipper and the Rose, the melodies slosh around lyrics that have largely to do with the frustrations of love and royalty. The Prince (Richard Chamberlain) bellyaches tunefully about the difficulty of finding a loved one from amongst the array of regal dogs put forward by his father the King (Michael Hordern). These complaints absorb rather more time than they should, and result, directly or indirectly, in several dance numbers of singular clumsiness. The dancers-presumably professionals-look like...
...placed on him looked like a flip visor. According to Link, the jurors also thought Bronfman was lying when he taped an emotional plea to his father, then a moment later changed his voice and said briskly, "Do it again." On the stand, Bronfman was unconvincing. He appeared to choke up when he looked at the jury, said Link, and compose himself when he turned to the judge...
...Eagle Point city council, who has three children in the school system: "We don't like sex education in health class. We don't like gambling training in math class. The only way to deal with the situation was to tie up the purse strings and choke these bad things...
...Love You, Alice B. Toklas turned into, this simple film, focusing entirely on Finney's Frank Elliot and his wife, Nora, played by Rachel Roberts, jolts us with an unrelentingly realistic, though extreme, view of the psychological crisis of a not old, but not young couple who choke on all the subtle lies needed to sustain the new 'honesty...
Since a renewal of inflation could choke off the worldwide recovery, Ford was eager to get his fellow leaders to commit themselves to a go-slow approach to recovery. That is scarcely a policy that entrances voters. As Treasury Secretary William Simon put it: "Preaching moderate growth is like trying to sell leprosy." But Ford had a powerful ally in West Germany's Schmidt, a former Finance Minister who believes that combatting inflation should be the No. 1 priority among the industrialized democracies. By,contrast, Britain and Italy, which are lagging behind in the recovery, would still like...