Word: enlistable
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...Sleep" screenplay for Hawkes two years later, incorporated several of "Casablanca's" most memorable features into "To Have and Have Not." Bogart plays the same outwardly embittered and egocentric but inwardly sympathetic hero in both, and both plots concentrate on the efforts of the other characters to enlist his desperately needed "hard resourcefulness" on the side of the anti-Nazi underground. The center of the action in both movies is a saloon that employs a wise and loyal piano player and a patriotic, emotional bartender. Both films include a hated Nazi (or Vichy) officer, an admired underground leader...
Thus, Johnson frets about the fact that the U.S. population, now 192,807,000, is expected to swell to 350 million in 25 years; he constantly asks himself what, specifically, can be done to keep up with such an increase. He intends to enlist the nation's best brains in a search for ideas on how to create new jobs, how to give employable skills to the many youths who do not go to college, how to cut the commuters' travel time in the nation's congested urban areas. He is convinced that this year...
...newsman whose deadline bouts with the typewriter let a cliche or two slip past his careless eye. In an effort to reduce the cliche content of its own copy, the Associated Press, which must cope with haste to a greater degree than most news-gathering agencies, decided to enlist the aid of a computer. From ditors and staff writers all over the U.S., the A.P. assembled a list of 469 hackneyed words and phrases. These were fed into a Univac 1105, along with 375,000 words of wire copy to be sifted for those same cliches...
...PATRICIA NEARY was fixing to enlist in the corps de ballet at Radio City Music Hall when Balanchine drafted her. A tall (5 ft. 71 in.), long-stemmed native of Miami, she is known as "The Technician," and has excelled in an extremely wide range of roles in her year as soloist. Her precise, whippet-quick movements are best showcased in Four Temperaments. She spends all her off hours baking brownies and cakes ("Oh, they're sooo tempting, but I can't touch them") for the theater's canteen, which is run by her mother, a former...
India generally is a far cry from the heady days of 1962 when, to repel the Red Chinese attack in the Himalayas, the nation seemed united and resolute. Indians swarmed to enlist, pledged their hoarded gold to the government, and willingly accepted a hike of income taxes by as much as 450% . Since then the course has been downhill. Nehru's illness and death were followed by the accession of tiny, introspective Lai Bahadur Shastri as Prime Minister. Almost immediately, Shastri himself suffered a heart attack; and although he seems recovered, he has stayed close to Delhi, making...