Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reindeer had velvet noses and every Santa Claus had a soft and downy beard. There were the times gone by when candy canes weren't sticky and decorations never fell from the Christmas tree. But that was a long time ago. For now the Salvation Army seems a depressing crew and the snow flakes seem to make the world a muddy mess rather than a winter wonderland. And it seems all too apparent, nowadays, that reindeer have foul breath and that nine out of ten Santas are phony while the other guy isn't a member of the union...
...should be said to the film's credit that those battle scenes which are shown are quite effective. Whatever shortcomings Messrs. Powell and Pressburger may have as writers and directors, they have, in their role of producers, still assembled a fine special effects crew. And so in the end the ships themselves emerge as the real "heroes" of the picture...
...inject it with drama, he had some 10,000 people in Portland, Ore., one of the U.S.'s 99 "critical targets," go through the motions of mass evacuation on the day "enemy" aircraft approached from the Aleutians, The Day Called X. Rasky's twelve-man technical crew, aided by publicity-eager federal Civil Defense experts and convoyed about the city by police motorcycle escort for three weeks, ably caught the mood of the day that began in an ordinary way. The cameras poked neatly around the well-stocked innards of the city's steel-and-concrete underground...
Despite his numerous activities, F.D.R. found time to participate in athletics. He was not good enough to make the varsity teams, but he played freshman football and rowed on the freshman crew. All through his college career he was greatly interested in intramural sports, chiefly rowing. "We had the most exciting kind of race yesterday and won by four feet," he exclaimed in one letter home, and there are similar references throughout his correspondence...
...through graduation--the most in any one year since I came here." He mentioned the names of several stalwarts on last year's team whose presence will be keenly felt, and pointed out that most of these were middle-distance runners. "In winter track," he observed, "your middledistance crew is your most important one. They've got to take care of four events: the 600, 1000, and both relays...