Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their old owners. Crop, livestock and food quotas imposed on farmers were cut back as much as 25%. Release was promised to "the great majority" of workers who were arrested after the June 17 strikes if they would promise to be good in the future. In frantic, almost comic haste, the Red puppets toured factories to explain and apologize...
...street, in front of a cordon of dark green riot trucks, stood a wall of People's Police, their grey raincoats agleam, their arms locked elbow to elbow. For a moment the front of the column hesitated and the marchers in the rear piled up in comic confusion. Then the 10,000 plunged ahead, disregarding thudding truncheons. The wall of police broke, and with a roar the marchers poured forward...
...where he has been ever since. Now, earning one of the highest salaries of any political cartoonist in the U.S., Fitz thinks newspaper cartooning has suffered because good artists have deserted it for more lucrative fields. Says he: "Many artists who might have become editorial cartoonists have gone into comic strips, which I understand are comparable to owning oil wells...
Danny Kaye Entertains (Columbia LP). In addition to a soft and sweet version of the Irish ballad Molly Malone, Kaye sings six songs from the 1941 Broadway hit, Lady in the Dark, among them The Princess of Pure Delight, Jenny, Tchaikovsky. The last is Comic Kaye at his best, as he rattles off the jawbreaking names of four dozen Russian composers without fluffing...
Died. Roland Young, 65, veteran London-born cinemactor (Topper, Ruggles of Red Gap), whose clipped moustache, clipped accent and acidly debonair style made him a comic stand-by of the U.S. screen for more than two decades; in Manhattan...