Word: foreshortenings
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While the reformers would all foreshorten the election year, they all disagree on the methods of change. Some would eliminate the state primaries; others would settle for a national primary, or 50 state primaries in the same week. The conventions might be pushed forward to August or September, or Election Day moved back. There is no universal panacea. Says Dick Nixon, facing the toughest campaign of his life: "The campaigns are certainly too long for the well-being of the candidates. Here is one place where I think our British cousins have a good word. They have a three-week...
...bagger standing up. Lacking Fairbanks' punch and ken. he has Robin's form and flair down pat. If prankish Actor Fairbanks was a man's Robin Hood, handsome, romantic Actor Flynn performs for everybody else. A head-thumping, sword-swishing, bow-twanging technicolor attempt to foreshorten the popular episodes of the Soo-year-old saga into the perspective of a single connected story. Robin Hood 1938 makes the last of Richard I's crusading years its period, draws a bead on Regent Prince John's tax oppression that should bring a nod from every liberty...