Word: franked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pamela Mason may be coruscant; she is also extremely intelligent, articulate, frank, and altogether interesting to look at and listen...
...week charged House Republican Leader Charles Halleck, determined to do or die for the Eisenhower Administration's request for an additional $225 million for the Development Loan Fund. The request had been killed by the powerful House Appropriations Committee, but Halleck visited with Ohio's Republican Representative Frank Bow, a bitter-end opponent of foreign aid, persuaded him to vote with the Administration. When Halleck took his case to Michigan Republican Alvin Bentley, who had rarely voted so much as a nickel for foreign aid, Bentley said: "You may be surprised by what I do." Halleck was indeed...
...crew felt the shock, heard the sound of the general alarm, rushed to dress. Gathering their life jackets, they streamed toward emergency boat stations. Some, like the shirtless man who stopped to put on a necktie, were momentarily panicky, but they were soon calmed by assurances from Captain Frank S. Siwik, 50, that there was no great danger. Siwik, master of Santa Rosa since her maiden trip last year, directed emergency work from the bridge, ordered fire fighters into the paint locker, radioed the Coast Guard for aid (a Coast Guard helicopter dropped extra carbon dioxide fire extinguishers). Siwik kept...
Director Stevens' triumph is all the more stunning in view of the fact that the story of Anne Frank is an extremely tiny story, and what there is of it is unsuited to the prime cinematic requirement that a motion picture must have motion. Little Anne was 13 years old when her family, together with another Jewish family and a querulous dentist, were forced to hide out in the attic of an Amsterdam factory to escape the Nazi pogrom. For two years the eight fugitives, supplied with meager amounts of food by friends, crouched in the same wretched refuge...
...Broadway play) are far more concerned with the stuff that life is made of, and the courage and dignity that man can summon from within himself when the only logical course seems to be to lie down and die. From the moment the refugees enter their hideaway, and Papa Frank announces the painful conditions of their survival-no daytime movement, speech or even use of the w.c. -the cramped loft thrums with a threat as foreboding from within as from without. Young Anne wakes from a nightmare with terrified screams; greedy old Van Daan. whose wife and teen...