Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Medal-of-Honor Major General William F. Dean, 54, brushing aside rumors that he might retire ("I'm not an old man yet"), flew from his California home to Washington for reassignment and a minor eye operation. Korean dirt, dust and wind had caused a skin growth on the cornea of his left eye. It began two months before the Communists captured him, he said. "You can't blame the Reds...
...show was called Femmes, but few of Colin's 33 canvases contained whole women. One Degas-like study showed a ballet lesson: a room filled with morning light and dust in which four isolated legs without bodies kicked in the air. In another picture, a wistful nude sat on an airy chair, minus her back and bottom. The effect was charming because the spectator's mind quickly filled in the missing portions, like the omitted words in a telegram. A pair of muscular legs and two busy hands easily became a ballerina bending over...
...lives. Villians are skewered on swords and hoist by powder kegs until the welkin rings. And amid the din of charging cavalry and ringing welkins, Lina Lollabridgia turns in the finest bit of provocative acting since Jean Harlow enticed Gable into lathering her back in Red Dust...
...Your article states that the radioactive dust scooped up by U.S. bombers was floating westward over the Pacific from Siberia. This may come as somewhat of a shock to you, but confidentially, the Pacific Ocean lies east of Siberia, not west...
...splendid animals as lions, leopards, gazelles and Ava Gardner. The curator of this photogenic zoo is Clark Gable, pictured as a tough, conscienceless "white hunter" who suffers a predictable attack of morality as the movie ends. Filmed in Africa, Mogambo borrowed its plot from the 21-year-old Red Dust (which also starred Gable, with the late Jean Harlow playing the Ava Gardner role). The dialogue seems to date back to an even earlier era than the original film...