Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couple of shills for an underworld magnate (George Mathews), who is planning to heist the diamond and figures that Ambrose is the perfect patsy. The mobster tries to get his victim to "borrow" the stone and cut it at home, but meanwhile the women in the caper unexpectedly drift into a nest-building mood over the poor motherless boy, and decide to put him wise to the double-cross. How Comedian Skelton cracks the conspiracy and the Goddess with one wild stroke of the old slapstick provides a real Keystone Kop finish...
Husky, handsome Paul C. Fisher, owner of Chicago's small but prosperous Fisher Pen Co., thinks of himself as a 20th century Tom Paine, and is hell-bent on stopping the "worldwide drift toward tyranny and destruction." Last week Penman Fisher went to jail for what he thought was the tyranny of the Wages & Hours...
China. The U.S. must not even talk about recognizing Red China. One reason: such talk would discourage 13 million overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia from their present strong anti-Communist drift...
...their debates. The "continuous creation theory" (TIME, Nov. 20, 1950) holds that the universe had no beginning and will have no end. It changes locally somewhat because of the "creation" of new matter (hydrogen atoms) in space. The hydrogen draws together to form new stars and galaxies, which gradually drift apart. But except for such "details," the universe is always in a "steady state." One thousand billion years from now it will be pretty much in the same condition as it is today...
...anyway. By quick stages, he is reduced to a fiscal wreck who can only make feeble protests against his son's dental expenses. Thereupon his wife stuns him to silence and final despair by explaining coldly that, when a baby tooth falls out prematurely, "the other teeth drift...