Word: foolproof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strangers on a Train. Alfred Hitchcock's implausible but dazzlingly tricky thriller about a psychopath (Robert Walker) with a new scheme for foolproof murder (TIME, July...
...movie is also the first to glorify the federal sleuths of the Post Office Inspection Service (who now. presumably qualify for abbreviation as P-men). When a post-office inspector is murdered, Inspector Ladd gets the job of running down the killers. He finds his suspects planning a foolproof $1,000,000 postal robbery, joins the gang's conspiracy in the guise of a bribe-hungry cop. Ladd's risky masquerade finally lands him in a mess that only fists, bullets and fast footwork can straighten out, but not before the picture works its familiar story into well...
...Russia's Andrei Vishinsky on his left. The delegates watched it with frank fascination. When he made his familiar, chopping gestures, the shadow appeared to be boxing Vishinsky's ears unmercifully, an illusion which was intensified by the President's words. His plea for a "foolproof" disarmament was obviously meant to offset Russia's phony peace talk...
...What works one place won't necessarily work elsewhere: "Foreign aid . .. is not some sort of patent remedy. It is not an independent and foolproof device, guaranteed to have universal validity and to produce certain calculable results ... To attempt to standardize its application would not be consistency-it would be applied fallacy...
...ground. We could carry it out every day and vault over it. One of us would be inside digging while the others vaulted. We'd have a good strong trap [door] and sink it at least a foot below the surface [of the ground]. It's foolproof...