Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brother who brought a suitcase full of grapes. Then came the job hunting: he carried a lunch pail, as if to assure any sharp-eyed foreman that he was ready for work (even though the pail was empty); once, without being hired, he pitched in on a construction crew, hoping that the supervisor would reward his zeal with pay, and got no pay. When he had only 75? left to his name, he latched on to a job as roustabout in the oilfields...
...simplest way to cut the physical and mental strain of space flight may be to make the crew unconscious, suggested Dr. John Lyman, U.C.L.A. associate professor of engineering and psychology. For most of the flight, he said, spacemen could be knocked out by drugs or low temperatures. They could be fed intravenously. To solve some of the same problems, Psychologist Donald Michael said that withdrawn personalities like schizophrenics or hermits might make fine spacemen, provided that they had the motivation to do their jobs. Eskimos or Buddhist monks might be good, too, because they come from "more sedentary, less timebound...
...Annie was ready. On the north beach, three miles away, the wife of a man on the firing crew crossed her arms and said softly: "Oh, God, please make it go. Help Jerry make it go right." In three minutes flame welled up in the launching stand. "She's going!" howled a woman on the beach. Down dropped the last of Big Annie's moorings. A man cried: "She's off!" All along the beaches the chant picked up new voices, a soaring, surging chain reaction sent them into a recitative: "Go!" they yelled...
...inspired a surprising amount of viciously unflattering comment. A well-known French actor last week gritted: "I have never in my life hated a woman so much." A German director said: "I never think of that kleine Biest without wanting to slap her face." To the cast and crew of Une Vie, the French picture she has just finished shooting, she was openly known as "The Monster." A French director called her "one of the worst experiences of my life. In that sweet smile I see nothing but bared fangs. Inside the fairy princess is a witch...
When work began, the crew at first suspected Maria's actressy airs and star-bitrary manners. But once they saw her in front of the camera, says Brooks, "they knew they had to do with a real professional, and the whole atmosphere of the picture changed. The other actors worked like hell to keep up with her." She was into everything. She had notions for the costume people, insights for the cameraman. And most of her points, says Brooks, were well taken. Most important of all, perhaps partly because she was anxious to be liked in Hollywood, she took...