Word: groomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have had a fascination for blending love and death in scenes of grotesque horror. In this tale by Spanish Novelist de Lera. the characters are cliches, and their talk is monotonous. But the novel comes powerfully alive when it reaches the love-death climax of a wedding night. The groom-to-be. Luciano, settles in a small, primitive town, picks a local beauty to marry. He has no trouble bribing her parents to let her go, but the rest of the townspeople fiercely resent an outsider taking one of their girls. They regard him with a "hatred steaming with...
...Honolulu and Wayne E. Marchand of Plattsmouth, Neb., were drilling 31 local Vietnamese volunteers in a two-week field exercise in guard techniques and patrolling. Along to watch the exercises were two new American arrivals in South Viet Nam, Sergeants Francis Quinn of Niagara Falls, N.Y., and George E. Groom of St. Joseph, Mo. All went well until the third night of the exercise...
...There goes that job in London-unless . . . With fiendish glee, Cagney plants a Wall Street Journal in the groom's motorcycle, gets the poor patsy clapped in a Communist clink. But Cagney stops milking his gloat when he finds himself snapped in his own trap. The boss's daughter turns out to be pregnant, and the boss himself announces that he will arrive in Berlin within 24 hours. Problem: in that one little old puckered-up day that he has left, can Cagney 1) spring the groom from his East German cell, and 2) convert him into...
...Ulbricht regime. The two disagreed on the need for closer ties between West Berlin and West Germany; Kennedy argued that any further efforts to tie the city to Bonn might stir the Soviets into fresh reprisals. As gently as he could, Kennedy suggested that Adenauer should start to groom a successor; Adenauer merely promised to think the matter over...
...dried from Gwen Terasaki's bestselling autobiography, Bridge tells the story of a sweet young thing from back-country Tennessee (Carroll Baker) who in the middle '30s meets and marries a handsome young first secretary (James Shigeta) in the Japanese embassy in Washington. When the groom takes the bride back home to meet the folks, she makes all the predictable mistakes: wears her shoes in the house, interrupts when a man is talking, steps into a car before her husband, squeals when a male friend of the family attempts to share her bath. Back in Washington again...