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...earned five degrees (B.S., A.B., B.C.S., M.C.S. and M.A.) and played football, basketball and baseball. This unrelenting will to work shows up in Bee's coaching. "I work my players harder [three hours a day] than any other coach in the business," Bee says pridefully. " work 'em, bawl 'em out, browbeat 'em . . . and they hate me." Though his players may not actually hate Bee, one of his stars recently "quit" the team because "we just couldn't get along." Bee had him back, hard at work, two days later...
...Frenchie" has most of the makings of an excellent shoot-'em-up Western: a good cast (Joel McCrea, Shelley Winters, Paul Kelly, Elsa Lancaster), fine Technicolor photography, and appropriate background music which is played whenever somebody rides in or out of town. But the picture appears to move slowly since there are no real chases and only one gun duel...
...acting hastily: "Wal air, I once knew a feller bought up a couple of Jersey cows and turned 'em out to pasture. Came back a year later and found no calves had been borned. Turned out he acted kinda hasty and hadn't got a bull...
...centuries the great Red River has swept its rusty silt into the blue salt water of the Gulf of Tonkin. On the rich soil thus built up have risen the twin bishoprics of Bui Chu (pronounced Booey Choo) and Phat Diem (pronounced Fat Zee-em). In a predominately Buddhist country and against the rising tide of Viet Minh Communism, they have established their predominately separate existence as independent Roman Catholic theocracies ruled by Monsignor Le Huu Tu, Bishop of Phat Diem, and his protege Monsignor Pham Ngoc Chi, Bishop...
...kept going up this hill carefully and then all of a sudden I see this light machine gun up real close. There were two gooks with it. I grabbed a grenade and threw it at 'em. The damned thing was a dud and didn't go off. The first thing I felt was my leg hurt real bad. Then the other leg hurt and both my arms were numb. I yelled, 'I got hit!' but there was no one around. I looked up and saw both of these gooks coming for me. I couldn...