Word: fines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, before taking off for a trip to Vienna, the joint chiefs conferred with representatives of The Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal. Said Admiral Denfeld: "We had a fine exchange...
...East Asia War, Negishi, a skilled mechanic who had saved a little money, decided to go into business on his own. Soon, he owned six factories in Tokyo, making communications parts for the Japanese army. Negishi took off his overalls, moved with his wife and three children into a fine residential district. He invested some of his profits in miscellaneous real estate, including a pleasant country inn located in picturesque Chiba county, near Tokyo...
...squill [a bulb root, shaped like an onion], which, after having been boiled down, is ... cut into the thinnest possible pieces. Afterwards it is mixed with one-fifth of sesame and one-fifteenth of opium poppy. When all of these have been pounded together in a mortar to a fine mass, knead it with honey and divide it into pieces as big as the largest olives. If one of these morsels is consumed around the second hour [about 8 a.m.] and another around the tenth hour [4 p.m.], no serious suffering will result from want of food...
According to the testimony of Gustave Flaubert (James Mason), Emma Bovary (Jennifer Jones) was by temperament more sybarite than sinner. Corrupted by her early reading of "lush "romances, she developed a love of fine clothes and luxurious emotions which her life as a peasant's daughter did little to satisfy. Her difference from other women lay not in her tastes and temptations, but in her ruthless talent for translating them into fact...
Backing the handsome production values are several fine performances-notably those by Jennifer Jones, Heflin and Jourdan. Miss Jones, in her best picture to date, manipulates Emma's moods and caprices with sensitive dexterity. Hardly ever out of sight of the camera, she gives a performance that is hardly ever out of focus, a feat that even the finicky Flaubert could admire...