Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cagey as a boxer readying a blow or parrying a punch, Japan shifted its weight in the South Pacific. On the eastern side of New Guinea, the Japs had been pushed back. Now fresh troops and supplies were being pushed forward into bases farther west - Timor, Amboina, the Aru Islands and New Guinea's western shore...
...very moment when the Red attackers reached the tensile limit of their supply lines, the Germans threw twelve fresh tank and infantry divisions into the fight. Moscow said that the arrival of these forces involved a lessening of the German forces in France-hence renewed Russian complaints about bearing the whole weight...
...Kelly's Stable) on the syncopated skids. People want soft tunes they can sway to and old favorites they can hum. Most ubiquitous new song: Cole Porter's torchy-chornya You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (best sung by the Riobamba's fresh-voiced Frank Sinatra...
Homer Macauley (Mickey Rooney) is a 14-year-old Postal Telegraph boy, "the fastest-moving thing in San Joaquin valley." He supports his fatherless family, runs the 220 low hurdles in school, is fresh to his history teacher and fights with a snob, one Hubert Ackley III. After school, Homer learns to be a man. His teachers are his boss, benevolently eccentric Tom Spangler (James Craig), and old Grogan (Frank Morgan) the telegrapher, who drinks every night to forget the sad messages that come over his wire. Freckled, four-year-old Ulysses (Jack Jenkins), called "Useless" for short...
Because the bait was still fresh on the second showing, the house was packed with hopeful sailors and tired businessmen. Numerous Harvard students were also looking for not-so-innocent merriment. Actually, the show is a must for members of the Film-Society and the Verein Turmwaechter and nothing but an expensive ($0.75) disillusionment for lusty minded Harvardians and sailors on shore leave...