Word: ernest
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...attacked-were concerned about making that same point. The resolution cleared the House with a resounding 416-0 vote after only 40 minutes of debate, but the Senate talked for a full nine hours before approving, 88-2. The only two dissenters were Alaska's Democratic Senator Ernest Gruening and Oregon's irascible Democrat Wayne Morse, both of whom argued that the resolution was unconstitutional because it amounted to a "predated declaration of war power" normally reserved to Congress...
...bashful Bronx butcher married the girl and they lived happily ever after. Only it doesn't end like that for the bull-necked actor who played the butcher in Marty, Ernest Borgnine, 47. Only 38 days after he wed his third wife, Musicomedienne Ethel Merman, 55, Ethel left his bed and board and headed in a huff for the Beverly Crest Hotel. As his sidekick used to say, after he'd closed the shop for the day, "I dunno, Marty, whaddayuh doin' tonight...
Last week the C.D.C.'s Dr. Ernest Tierkel, known in the trade as "Mr. Rabies," reported promising results in tests with pre-exposure vaccination for people who run special risks-veterinarians, dog handlers and wildlife rangers. This protection program, Dr. Tierkel suggested, may be just the ticket for Peace Corps workers and other people going into areas where rabies is endemic, especially in Central and South America, home of the vampire...
...MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. Funny, if often unkind, inside reminiscences of the literati (Gertrude Stein, Ford Madox Ford, Scott Fitzgerald) who befriended the young unknown writer in his Paris springtime before The Sun Also Rises thrust him into their own outerworld of fame...
...Killers, nominally based on a vigorous short story by Ernest Hemingway, seems to borrow most of its inspiration from the Marquís de Sade. In 1946, the Hemingway story triggered a crisp crime thriller starring Burt Lancaster as the willing victim gunned down by hired assassins. The latest version, with John Cassavetes, was designed as a full-length feature for television, then was bucked along to theater exhibitors when NBC decided that its burly blend of sex and brutality might loom rather large on the home screen...