Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guard gets the passenger list over the telephone, reads out ten names. "Jews," says the sergeant, "Jews from all over." The guards try to halt the bus, but it careens past them up a hillside toward Palestine-and toward a dangerous cliff...
George Helden seems to be Bill Coleman's successor at the blocking quarterback role, with Hank Vender Eb, Dave Goldthwait, and Ted Lyman backing him up. Versatile Charley Spreyer will probably be the starting tallback, and talented Don McNicol will be a capable substitute. Bill Lyie, Ed Buckley, and Cliff Helman are other possibilities...
...narrow, cliff-bound shore. Through the Alps to France was uphill dangerous work, for the passes spread wide into Southeastern France...
...Indianapolis, even the most enthusiastic Shavian gave him little chance to repeat, especially in a field that included such highhearted and heavy-footed drivers as young Rex Mays, who earned the favored pole position with his top qualifying speed; Kelly Petillo, only other onetime winner (1935); 44-year-old Cliff Bergere, Hollywood stunt man who finished in the money seven times in twelve starts; Mauri Rose, 1936 national champion; Ted Horn, among the first five for the past four years; and Joel Thorne, daredevil New York millionaire who placed seventh a year...
...grisly Rock People are scarcely less gluttonous. In one spirited set-to over supper, Tumak, the picture's Tarzan-like hero (Victor Mature), is heaved off a cliff by Angry Volcano, his father (Lon Chancy Jr.). Five minutes later he is heaved off another cliff by a mammoth. Amid assorted saurians Tumak floats safely down to the country of the Shell People, who are soft-living sybarites about 1,001,940 years ahead of their time. Even a cave man can see that Shining Star, their blonde leading lady (Carole Landis), is a Hollywood babe in a deerskin playsuit...