Word: complements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...murky skies, pistol shots and the aroma of intrigue. Charles Laughton and Director Hitchock have joined forces, gathered around them an imposing array of writers and actors, and produced one of the best pictures of the year. The flamboyance of Laughton and the high-strung tension of Hitchcock direction complement each other perfectly. The result is high adventure worthy of Dumas combined with the trip-hammer pace of a first-rate detective story. Maureen O'Hara, Laughton's much-heralded colleen, is not, however, the sensation that one might expect. While she is admirable as a wide-eyed adventuress...
Meyer claims that a team must have a well-rounded offense to be successful. Teams must have effective ground attack to complement the air offense, according to the "Dutch...
...they sank it. Rescue ships, including a U. S. freighter and a Dutch vessel, picked up perhaps half of the Courageous' company who were found singing and cheering in the water. The Admiralty took wry satisfaction from the fact that the carrier had aboard less than her full complement of 48 planes...
...that when King George VI, who personally owns more ships than anyone else in the world,* went out into the fog and drizzle in Weymouth Bay last week, what he saw was 133 ghosts-some of them round-bellied, rust-patched, long since war-weary. What counted was their complement of 12,000 newly assembled reservists, swelling Britain's total mobilized sea force...
...subject. One-third of the population is Catholic (although there is no Catholic in the Government) and looks upon union with Eire as a deliverance from the fanatically Protestant rule of Lord Craigavon's Northern Ireland Government. Industrial (and very much depressed) Belfast would, moreover, be a natural complement to agricultural Eire...