Word: ericson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such a timely hand, may have been "the gigantic snow-capped Peak of Teneriffe on the Canary Islands," and the apples the hero plucked were perhaps the golden-yellow fruit of the Canary strawberry tree. Though Author Herrmann considers it only "possible" that America was reached even before Leif Ericson's 11th century voyage to Vinland, his stimulating and well-balanced chronicle of heroism, curiosity and restless greed leaves the reader with the feeling that such a feat was well within the powers of early...
Robert Ryan, Ernest Brognine, and John Ericson run the more conventional outlaw gamut, from ruthless leader to respectively brutal and sensitive followers. As the garrulous doctor and the besotted law officers, Walter Brennan and Dean Jagger convincingly exhibit the weaknesses which prevent either of them from acting against his criminal neighbors. A near catastrophe to the film's carefully constricted tone occurs when Anne Francis, as fresh and unnatural as a desert mirage, enters the scene. Fortunately, her role is slight and leaves no romantic blemishes...
...growing problem in both medicine and crime. The pills were amphetamine,* which users call "goof balls" or "bennies." They produce a feeling of exhilaration, temporarily banish fatigue, and seem to sharpen the perceptions. That is why, in The Cruel Sea, the ship's surgeon gave them to Captain Ericson after days & nights on the bridge. But, as the doctor warned him then, the aftereffects are severe. The FDA lists increased fatigue and insomnia, and maybe aggressiveness, suicidal tendencies or collapse...
...genius: a head of hair proportionately longer than that of less talented musicians. Elizabeth moves him into her apartment, but she keeps getting in his hair when he wants to practice, and pretty soon he walks out. On the rebound, she marries an American piano student (John Ericson) whose childishness, interpreted by the script as glowing Americanism, illuminates dark old Europe about as effectively as a ten-watt bulb...
...winning score for Weld came with only three plays remaining, on a completed pass play. The ball went from Pete Sterns to Barry Saxe to Don Ericson to Bob Leet who went over to tie the score. Jack Linehan tallied the winning point after on a pass from Sterns...