Word: debbil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field Hunter causes Ol' Debbil Walston no end of trouble by mooning about the wife he had to leave behind when he took on his new incarnation. "Wives," declares Walston woundedly, "cause me more trouble than the Methodist Church." In the longest-distance phone call in cinema history, he gets hold of Operative Lola (Gwen Verdon), still infernally seductive at the age of 172. Lola does not get what she wants, but the Senators do win the pennant and Hunter is mercifully transformed back into Robert Shafer...
...billing with that old spotlight-stealer, Red China's Chou Enlai. Nehru's ambition is to establish an "area of peace" around the Indian Ocean. Taking Chou En-lai's professions of peace at face value, Jawaharlal Nehru is stuck with the thesis that those old debbil Americans must be causing all the trouble. It was getting to be an old song. The words made no sense, but in India the tune was undeniably popular...