Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film wrapped around Darryl Zanuck's head on your June 12 cover wouldn't pass through any projector anywhere. All movie film has four perforations to each frame...
...their barrios (villages), and who fled to the relative safety of the towns, are moving back to their old homes. The roads are safe. In this area the Huks are weaker, much weaker, than they were in the spring. All this is said with difficulty, in the hot, frame headquarters of an old prewar training camp. It is a surprise to the American visitor, who has supposed these islands to have been completely Americanized, that the colonel's English is as broken as his teeth...
...gold-colored, 16-lb. shot and thoughtfully polishes it with a massive paw before he gets poised for his throw. Then, with a negative, jowl-flapping shudder of his head, he crouches slightly on his powerful legs ("they're 50% of my success") and uncoils his frame from his toes to his fingertips. His heave last week was 57 ft. 9± in., 8± in. short of his own latest world record, set in April...
When James joined the P.M.A. kitchen staff as a 17-year-old in 1900, the school had less than 100 students, was housed mainly in three frame buildings on a hill overlooking the Hudson River, 45 miles north of Manhattan. In 50 years, while Peekskill has been more than doubling in enrollment and gradually accumulating a 13-unit, $1,000,000 plant, James estimates that he has turned out about 9,000,000 meals, not counting thousands of between-meals snacks...
...career had followed a somewhat familiar path. Born in South Carolina, educated at Columbia University, Keyserling went to Harvard Law School. From there he entered the murky Washington labyrinth by way of Henry Wallace's AAA. He helped frame the Wagner Act. He worked his way onward & upward through the Housing agencies. He mastered the gobbledygook of economic language and the fast footwork needed for intramural debate. He learned to jump out from behind corners, making Keynesian faces at businessmen. In 1946, with a boost from Harry Truman, he landed on the newly constituted...