Word: desert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's contribution to the experiment centers in great part about two giant cameras which will photograph the entire experiment from the desert floor, some twenty miles below the violent explosions in the air above new Mexico. These cameras, equipped with rotating shutters, will record the flight of the cast-off missiles covering as area of 40 to 45 degrees...
...rest of his solid, well-balanced speech, Austin ignored Molotov's charges, expressed quiet optimism about U.N.'s achievements. The commissars from the Armenian mountains and the lawyers from the jungle's fringe, the princes of the Arabian desert and the polemicists from the Balkan cafés looked at the immaculate, stocky figure with varying degrees of understanding. Warren Robinson Austin, ex-Senator from Vermont, the President's Special Representative to the General Assembly, was the U.S.'s new Ambassador to the World...
...fisherman who finds a tremendous pearl, is beset by sharpers and thieves who would do him out of it, and, discovering that the pearl brings him no happiness, hurls it into the ocean. These doings involve a heady quota of drinking, amorous women, killings, gun-toting chases over desert and mountains. That the action is reasonably accurate as well as artistic is attributable to tall, broad-shouldered Director Emilio ("El Indio"-The Indian) Fernandez, who knows what he is shooting off his cameras about: he has been over much of that country himself...
With Clementine, Director Ford has accomplished more than an intelligent retelling of a hoary yarn. His camera sometimes pauses, with a fresh, childlike curiosity, to examine the shape and texture of a face, a pair of square-dancing feet, a scrap of desert landscape or a sunlit dusty road. The leisurely lens-a trick Europeans frequently overdo and Hollywood seldom attempts-makes some of Ford's black-&-white sequences as richly lifelike as anything ever trapped in Technicolor...
...west are excellent spawning grounds for this dissatisfaction, with unpopularity of the O.P.A. and the current red scare providing the impetus. The loss of Henry Wallace will produce the same result at the other extreme. Yet the question remains whether the key Democrats in this key area will desert in numbers large enough to allow a clean oppositionist sweep. For nothing less will give the Republicans control of the House and Senate and their first clear electoral victory since 1928. Nothing less than this sweep will pit one branch of the government against the other in a standoff...