Word: groaned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Million Years B.C. is a gaudier and bawdier copy of a prehistoric (1940) Hollywood epic about life at the yawn of prehistoric mankind. This time it is in color by DeLuxe, but once again, the sound track consists of groan-up dialogue that could have been prerecorded at a pet shop. Just as in the original, the special-effects man creates a table-top monster rally that comes to a clumsy climax in a duel between a triceratops and an allosaurus-the least exciting rematch since the second Clay-Liston fight...
...Freedman had a 2-point reversal and also half of a "crucifix." With his left leg wrapped around Buttrill's left leg, Freedman reached across Buttrill to grab his right leg with his hands. He then rocked back, splitting Buttrill's legs wide apart hard enough to make him groan...
...then, amid the groan of earth-moving machines, police called for silence. Then during the eerie, deathly lull, everyone listened for the faint whimper of a trapped child...
Though SHAPE'S officers may groan at the thought of swapping Paris' glitter for bucolic Belgium, locals around Casteau consider the choice a stroke of luck. Real estate prices have doubled, and rents are sure to follow. Besides, many of the residents share a SHAPE passion: "I'm looking forward to the Americans," says one Casteau golfer. "We need some competition...
...Wilson insisted, "but at redeployment"-releasing workers from less critical industries for jobs in export or other important fields (see WORLD BUSINESS). By any name, it sounded to the T.U.C. brothers like joblessness (which climbed by 52,558, to 316,714, in the last four-week period), and a groan rumbled through the old Blackpool opera house. Wilson insisted on compliance with the wage standstill. "We have taken action," he said. "Now we have the right to ask for your free and willing assent to what the national interest requires...