Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interesting foreign name into a big Hollywood star. With one film he more than doubled his movie audience in the U.S.-Kwai will probably be seen by at least 50 million Americans, and stands to make more than $20 million. By his intricate, strongly moving portrayal of a British colonel at once stupid and heroic. Guinness repealed the casual popular impression that he is merely a sort of Stan Laurel for the intellectuals, and revealed himself as a dramatic actor of imposing skill and large imagination. U.S. moviemakers were so impressed that last month the Motion Picture Academy named Alec...
...walked across the platform, conferred briefly with Howse and belted him on the jaw, knocking the bespectacled Howse out of his seat and off the platform. "He called me a son of a bitch," Stevens told his friends afterward. "I didn't." said Howse, a retired Air Force colonel who still suffers from the effects of a crash at sea during World War II. "I was studying the agenda, and the next thing I knew I was flying through...
...victims of Turkish persecution who migrated to New York City in the 18503, sold rugs and dry goods, moved west to settle in Illinois, Michigan and on the Chisholm Trail at boomtown Wichita. Leading Wichita Lebanese-Americans: the Farha brothers, owners of seven supermarkets; U.S.A.F. Jet Ace Lieut. Colonel James Jabara...
Guards stood watch every 50 yards along his road to the city, and lined up two deep the second day as he laid a wreath on the Soviet war memorial. Also on hand, though unannounced in any list of the Soviet delegation, was Colonel General Ivan Serov, the Soviet secret police boss who was returning to the scene of his crime. It was he who had treacherously arrested General Pal Maleter, hero of the 1956 Budapest rising, as Maleter parleyed with Red army officers...
...really first-rate citizens of a second-class power, Britons, says Punch, must throw off centuries-old habits and 1) "master the art of boasting," 2) practice "indifference to the welfare of birds and animals," while "almost everybody must use the rank of colonel or count, to make both the Army and the Aristocracy look ridiculous...