Word: depending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...zone surrounding the 12,000-ft. Aberdare Mountains-the Mau Mau stronghold. By creating a Malaya-style dead zone, patrolled day & night, the planters hope to deprive the Mau Mau of food, weapons and recruits, ultimately starve them into submission. The trouble with eviction is that the settlers themselves depend on the Kikuyus to harvest their crops, dig their wells and cook their food...
Percentage Player. Unlike most of basketball's angular skyscrapers, who have trouble getting out of their own way, Dukes is both agile and graceful. He does not depend on height alone. Against another tall man, Dukes's sleight-of-hand artistry-he shoots equally well with both hands-often feints the defensive man completely out of position. As a defensive "rebounder," i.e., grabbing the ball off the backboards. Dukes takes advantage of both his height and cat-quick reflexes...
...production, regretably, was not up to the quality of the script. A lack of integration marked first part and in a scene at the palace of Anides, the characters seemed isolated when the drama was at fever pitch. There was also a tendency, most disconcerting in short dialogue, to depend more and more on the script towards the end. Musical accompaniment and a good touch at the end helped to cover up some of the inadequacies...
...Phillips Brooks House is essentially in good order," Buck stated, "and at present I don't envision any positive changes. It will depend, however, somewhat upon the new head...
...event, the picture is not important. Whether Bicana Devil be comes to sight what The Jazz Singer was to sound, will depend on how well authors and directors accustom themselves to this essentially new me dinm. Despite its importation everyone should see the picture, it only to add another story to his backlog, of takes to admiring grandchildren. ROBERT L. SCHOENBERG