Word: fore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moves patiently along a ridge against the jostling clouds of a thunderstorm. It deploys behind its red-and-gold guidon for a charge, plays taps when it buries its dead, and sings a lot of good cavalry songs. Ford's officers sit straight in the saddle, and their gold fore-and-aft shoulder bars gleam in the sun. His two lieutenants (one a wealthy Easterner) are in love with one girl, and she is a spoiled brat who turns out all right in the end. Ford has a big sergeant who drinks Irish whiskey and demolishes a half dozen...
...clarity of thought and narration) has peppered The Woman of Rome with flashes of wisdom that seem like borrowed pearls as simple Adriana threads them: "We never get clear, definite changes in life; and those who do make hurried changes risk seeing their old habits come to the fore once again, still alive and as deep-rooted as ever." Those who want to read universal meanings into this couch-worn tale will have to do it at the level of amorality where only the Adrianas of the world can move with assurance...
...mostly on canals, or at night. Neither of these were particularly conducive to postcard reproduction. On the canals you couldn't see the boat for the cows. The Dutch canals run merrily through mile after mile of cow pasture, and all the cows spend most of their time sloping fore-and-aft on a dike and watching people sail by. We started mooing at the cows to break the monotony of higher-than-land-level sailing, but one day we mooed, tacked, and tried to start the engine at the same time, and created a shoreline stampede that ended with...
Although Mikkola's varsity and freshman harrier teams hold an overall advantage of 34 victories and 10 losses in Harvard-Yale competition, a dangerous trend has come to the fore in the last few seasons. It won't endanger the Crimson's lead, in the immediate future, anyway, but Yale seems to be narrowing the gap and Jaakko regretfully reports that this year the Eli's have a fair chance of winning the intercollegiate championship. Since good cross-country teams usually lead to good track teams and poor cross-country teams don't such a situation doesn't bode well...
...producers decided to try religion when they got hold of a four-hour Cinecolor film of the annual Easter sunrise passion play put on as an Oklahoma hillside Oberammergau by citizens of Lawton, Okla. Babb & Jossey trimmed the film and added some homey fictional sequences fore & aft, starring a six-year-old "find" from Atlanta, named Ginger Prince ("42 inches and 42 pounds of Southern charm...