Word: ems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Independent drivers viewed the situation in a brighter light, asserting that the new rule was "a good idea" and adding that they would be able to handle any roughness. "There's no trouble yet," stated one cabble, "but give 'em time We'll do all right anyhow...
According to Rickey's "plan" (regarded with some cynicism in Brooklyn, where every loser chants "Wait till next year, we'll moider 'em"), the postwar Dodgers were not expected to win their first pennant until 1948. The Dodgers were a disorganized team last year, full of old men and greenhorns, but with them Durocher almost upset the plan. The Dodgers were in first place on the Fourth of July, by which time, according to an old but questionable tradition, pennant races are decided. (Durocher Dodgers, better at the start than in the stretch, have been first...
...suspense, this type of movie generally tries for incidental humor. Johnny O'Clock tries almost too hard. (In a checkered-tablecloth restaurant, the waiter serves Powell & girl two unordered straight shots. Powell: "Who ordered these?" Waiter: "Ever eaten here?" Powell:"No." Waiter:"You'll need 'em.") But the show's biggest laugh is unintentional. During a gambling session, Powell and his partner, by this time sworn enemies, step outside to split their profits and call it quits. After they have been gone a few tense minutes, the sound track shudders with a rattle of pistol shots...
...twelve-year-old daughter's round eyes and read a $20,000 message which he decoded thus: "O.K., papa, it's yours for the family [of nine], to do what you think you should." Elsewhere in the U.S., some 200 citizens shook, stomped, cried or set 'em up with sudden violence...
...started playing. Nobody told him how, and he still can't read music well. He played his first date in New Orleans' red-light district when he was 10. He says "If I couldn't find the notes in the proper place, I made 'em myself. If you want a soft mellow tone, you have to take it easy and pet it a little. But you take an awful chance, you may not get anything." He still uses his own unorthodox fingering. "I seem to have a gift," he says. "If I hear...