Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...role of the daughter, Lilli Palmer is called upon to be an unkissed, naive girl. Miss Palmer is a truly lovely, fresh thing to look upon, and reacts with the fiery bewilderment of you when she discovers the truth about her lover. She is especially good in the scene in which she proposes to him, reminiscent of Ingrid Bergman in her uncanonized days. Lawrence Fletcher as the father is a funny burlesque of the nouveau riche businessman...
Public Servant. Duggan had been in ill health. The family said that he was overworked, had once suffered from ulcers, and still had a weak stomach; he sometimes felt nausea and the need for fresh air. Furthermore, he had not yet fully recovered from a delicate operation for the removal of a spinal disc performed last fall...
...gloomy. But could the 2,000,000 sets which manufacturers hope to turn out in 1949 be sold at current high prices? Admiral's Siragusa said no: "The honeymoon is over . . . [We'll have to use] all the tricks of the trade and [develop] some new and fresh ones . . . [and] sell at competitive prices...
Communist General Lin Piao followed hard on Fu's heels, drew a siege ring around the city. By week's end both airfields outside the city walls were in Communist hands. Electricity and water lines were cut. Food prices doubled and tripled; fresh vegetables and meat almost disappeared from the markets...
Just ten years ago, Marion Harper Jr., fresh from Yale, got a job as office boy at McCann-Erickson, Inc., one of the six largest U.S. advertising agencies. Tall (6 ft. 1 in.), strapping (190 Ibs.) Harper was far from the outsider's idea of an advertising man. He was quiet and studious; he did not wear hand-painted ties, didn't smoke, showed not a single huckster characteristic...