Word: flicks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Millionaire Friedrich Flick, onetime financier of the SS, is a German coal baron whom the allies jailed (1945-50) for using slave labor in his farflung mines. Two-thirds of Flick's holdings were grabbed by the Communist government of Eastern Germany; the rest were ordered broken up by U.S. and British trustbusters. Flick agreed to sell his majority (60%) interest in the Harpener Bergbau, and looked around for a German customer. He found none: German businessmen, strapped for cash, need all their ready capital to build new factories...
...system is completely compatible (i.e., the telecast in color which the committee saw was received in black & white on regular receivers in homes in the New York area). Viewers can also control color intensity (a flick of the brightness knob can change red to pink), while those who weary of watching color can switch back to black & white by another turn of the knob...
...more expensive big brother, the long-barreled revolver, shoots for a guaranteed 75 feet, and further, if boosted with a special jet squirt. The sleek, narrow barrel aims with pin-point accuracy, known to flick a pencil from a hand. Even the great man of guns, Ed McGiverin, claims no such feats in his "Fast and Famous Revolver Shooting...
...didn't read the book, see the movie. If you liked the book, you'll love the flick...
...pamphlet briskly urges the candidate, in picking a theme for his initial speech, to choose one "in which you believe." The worst bugaboo of all is competition: "No law compels people to listen to you. You must interest them. If you don't, a flick of the dial will bring them drama, news, comedians, music or"-the saddest fate of all-"another speaker...