Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More urbane was the guy who resented the coat and tie rule at the Union. He made a test case of it. He wore a coat, and he wore a tie, but he left his pants at home, and no one batted an eye...
...hand a year ago. Now I'm holding yours. Keep fighting, Vic, keep fighting." Vic mumbled, "Look after the kids . . . and Sophie." At Henry Ford Hospital, where he was transferred a few hours later, doctors dug six pieces of lead out of his body and removed his right eye...
...smiling crowds spilled everywhere. The sidewalks and street corners of Nagasaki were blocked as far as eye could see with politel^ jostling people, carrying glossy paper Japanese flags, waiting for the first glimpse of Hirohito's aging maroon Packard...
...doctors could not be sure just what had caused Gregory Peck's eye infection, but M-G-M found its effects painfully clear: the moviemaking machinery had grown so complicated that an actor's inflamed eye was enough to inflict a year's postponement (and thus tie up $1,000,000 already spent) on "the biggest picture of all time...
Three days before many of the Quo Vadis staff were to leave for Italy, Peck's eye puffed up. MGM, which needed every bit of the bright Italian summer for outdoor scenes in Rome, feared that he would miss the July 1 deadline. Last week the studio bowed to the fateful intricacy of its own schedule, and put the Roman invasion off to May 1, 1950. When Peck bounced out of the hospital, having lost only two days of shooting on the Fox lot (at the cost of a mere $40,000), M-G-M was already a prisoner...