Word: hanging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will hang on to its front runners -The $64,000 Question, still the most popular and lively of the lot, which continues to bounce contestants over to The $64,000 Challenge...
...California Housewife Earlene Brown, 21, hit on the happy practice of tossing iron balls around the landscape just four months ago, got the hang of it so quickly that she took a trip to Washington, D.C. for the women's Olympic tryouts, heaved the 4-kilo (8 Ibs. 15 oz.) shot a distance of 46 ft. 9½ in. for a new American record and a place on the team. As if to make sure she would get to Melbourne, formidable Earlene (226 Ibs.) also picked up a discus, threw it in a style that recalled a comic-strip...
...into Shepilov's ensemble with a piece-by-piece analysis. Of the pre-tied, hook-on bow tie: "If you don't have a valet to tie your tie, which regrettably many people don't, then you should tie it up yourself.'' Of the hang of the long trousers: "The wrong sort of braces . . . assuming he would wear nothing so inexcusable as a belt." Tailor reserved its unkindest cut of all, however, for the brown suit that the burly Shepilov wore on his arrival in London: "All right, perhaps, for grouse shooting, but as Lord...
Only the combination of war and marriage could make Dotty hang up her spikes. While her husband Richard Tyler fought in the Middle East, Dotty Tyler drove trucks and led W.A.A.F.s through physical training. But when a bomb blew up her mother's home and clobbered her collection of prizes in the process, Dotty determined to try a comeback. Even the birth of her first child did not take her mind off the 1948 Olympics. The Tylers were living with Dotty's mother, a former acrobatic dancer, who was only too happy to serve as baby sitter while...
...cameras are trained with documentary fidelity on the U.S.S. Belinda, an attack transport manned by the customary horde of landlubbers who have to be whipped into shape by a handful of old salts. All of the characters are so simply drawn that it might have been more convenient to hang labels about their necks: Jeff Chandler is the Good...