Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Shirley Temple-still "Presh" to her mother-had very little to do during all this, she had clearly not forgotten the order that used to echo across Fox's back lot: "The little girl's hands must be on the wheel all the way." During rehearsals she was consulted, says Jaffe, "on many things that don't really involve her." Of the 16 shows in the $3,200,000 series, she wants to star in three-Rapunzel, Hiawatha, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow-and narrate the others (Rip Van Winkle, Sleeping Beauty, Ali Baba...
...echo of new rumblings about disarmament negotiations, U.S. Physicist Edward Teller, "the father of the H-bomb." this week came forward with some well-chosen words of scientific caution. Writing in the January Foreign Affairs, Teller (TIME, Nov. 18) looks with knowing doubt on proposals to start disarmament by agreeing to halt tests of nuclear bombs. "It has been claimed that a nuclear test can be noticed around the world and that a ban on tests would therefore appear to be self-policing,"writes Teller. "Actually, a nuclear test is easily noticed only if it is performed in the most...
...human race lies in Ella Young's evocation of Gaelic Ireland, The Wonder Smith and His Son, and in a reissue of Howard Pyle's saga of the German robber barons. Otto of the Silver Hand. A tall tale is found in Daniel Boone's Echo, by William 0. Steele; poetry in Katherine Love's anthology, A Little Laughter; magic in Mary Norton's Bed-Knob and Broomstick; hobbies in Royal Wills's Tree Houses. The range is being pushed farther and farther from pram to prom, from pre-reading do-it-yourselfers (with...
...including the American Revolution, it was still not approved. Gales of laughter went up at the story that the Pentagon would not tell how much peanut butter the Army consumed for fear such knowledge would give the Russians an indication of our manpower strength. But the "laughter has an echo that is grim...
General Phariseeism. Despair and religious yearning pervade a group of poems, supposedly written by the hero, which Author Pasternak effectively uses as the novel's epilogue. Sample: "I catch the distant echo of the happenings of my century. In the darkness of the night a thousand flaming binoculars are focused on me. If only it is possible, God, remove this chalice from me. I love your obstinate plan, and in agreement, I will play my part. But now a new drama has arisen. This time at least, relieve me of taking part in it . . .1 am alone and everything...