Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...literary space and screen space is taken by the Miss Lollobrigidas who can, as she boasts, break up families. It must be terribly frustrating for men in these times. By comparison with all this half-clad beauty (with measurements to substantiate), ordinary wives, children, and plain-little-girls-next-door aren't sexy...
Card Game. Ike's first chore was a nationwide television broadcast. He spent two days with speechwriters, laboriously polishing a text he had no intention of using. One day last week, an hour before the broadcast, the President arrived at a side door of Denver's KLZ. In the main studio, Ike's TV Adviser Robert Montgomery checked and rechecked equipment and staging. Fifteen minutes before air time, the President posed for still photographers and a cameraman asked him to say something so it would look as if he were delivering his speech. "What...
Death came to Europe's door last week and impatiently tapped out three initials: EDC. After four years of doubts and discord, the long-debated, much-despaired-of European Army treaty seemed irretrievably doomed...
...Hollywood, rehearsing for his show, Red Skelton plunged headlong into a "breakaway"* door. It didn't break, and Red was hospitalized with concussion and a mild case of shock. Skelton seems to be growing accident prone: last year he narrowly missed blowing off his head with a shotgun; last January he fell through a glass shower door, requiring 30 stitches in his arm; last April he sprained his back falling down a flight of stairs. This time, on only 30 minutes' notice, Nightclub Comic Johnny Carson (who is also M.C. of CBS's Earn Your Vacation) took...
Power of Suggestion. In Toledo, a summer-stock production of Dracula was interrupted when a bat flew in the front door, barged around for 20 minutes until finally knocked down...