Word: gladding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good works are so famed that the veterans' annual fishing trip, now in its eighth year, is a Texas institution, and boat owners are glad to lend their boats for it. Nevertheless, Anderson has nothing but scorn for the "bighearted amateur do-gooder." Says he: "There's no greater waste in the world." The reason is that Anderson does not consider himself an amateur do-gooder. He is a professional...
This is the end of my road, and I'm glad it's over." The Undisciplined. Thus last week Franco's police captured an old enemy: Juan Comorera, 60, once the powerful, dreaded "Lenin of Catalonia" and top man of Spanish Communism in Catalonia...
...army deserted him. How stood the army? Arbenz had fattened it with increased pay and had given his officers elegant clubs and low-price commissaries. He had trimmed out the despised "line" (i.e., up from the ranks) officers and replaced them with fellow military-school men. The officers were glad to get new equipment, even Red arms -but they had little use for Communism...
...when Shelley Winters, a nightclub singer, goes to the airport to meet Colleen Miller, an innocent young thing from the old home town. On the way, Shelley bumps by accident into a male passerby. "If there is any damage to the chassis, honey." he says, "I'd be glad to pay for repairs." "Buster," Shelley replies, "you couldn't even pay for the headlights." Colleen soon gets used to the way New Yorkers (in this picture) talk, but it shocks her when a fellow offers to pay her $100 for a date...
McCarthy slurred at Symington as "Sanctimonious Stu," and once remarked: "I'm glad we're on television [so] millions of people . . . can see how low an alleged man can sink." Symington replied: "You'd better go to a psychiatrist." The new directions of attack seemed to indicate that McCarthy, in his own fantastic way, was trying for some kind of happy ending in the Republican family...