Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From a distance, the DeLong platform looks like nothing else on land or sea. It stands serenely above the water while the waves slosh among its eight thick legs. Schools of fish and porpoises swim around it, and files of comic pelicans flap slowly past. All the time the drill is turning, biting into the rock thousands of feet below. If the platform must be moved, the barge shins slowly down its legs and pulls them out of the mud. A complete move takes less than a day, and costs less than moving a drill rig on land...
...already sent destroyers to scour the seas off Guatemala, shadowing and photographing ships and challenging them for identification. Only vessel so far stopped (by a comic misunderstanding) was the United Fruit Co.'s banana-freighter Choluteca...
Hobson's Choice (London Films; United Artists) is a cheerful little slice of death, warmed over and served with some lively comic sauces by Producer-Director David Lean (Brief Encounter, Great...
...Perhaps you've seen it in the comic strips,' she said. 'I was the original model for Daisy Mae, but my real name is Choo Choo Johnson...
...group is not indulging in some new egghead fad. Host Arthur Meier Schlesinger has always been a L'il Abner fan. Mrs. Schlesinger delights in telling of the encounter her husband once had with a flesh and blood representative of the comic strip...