Word: glamorize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army Field Artillery program ranges somewhere between the dullness of comptroller work and the glamor of flight training. The classic complaint of the artillerymen is that the mortality rate of battery forward observers like themselves was one of the highest among combat forces during World...
Sears, Roebuck & Co. this week mailed out the biggest Christmas catalogue in its history. It contained 402 pages v. last year's 360, listed 30,000 items. Appropriately enough, the biggest section (71 pages) is for toys. Among the new ones: a "Tintair Glamor Girl Doll," whose blonde hair can be dyed two different colors and washed out again ($11.45); a 145-piece army training center, complete with 100 plastic soldiers and a swivel chair in the headquarters building for the top brass...
...week's end, Ulrich was still in bed, being treated for shock. Said Headmaster William Bowdon: "I've pointed out to the other boys that when stripped of its glamor Ulrich's action was to take what didn't belong to him and endanger the lives of other people. But the boys still regard him as a hero...
...hero to his own undoing. He hitchhikes to the distant city, where his rich uncle manufactures swim suits on the vast scale and cuts a swath in local society. There, from a shipping clerk's job in the factory, George catches tempting glimpses of a life of wealth, glamor and importance...
...does, Ava Gardner may yet, in spite of herself, wind up bringing glamor back to Hollywood...