Word: happening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There were also men who went to pieces in the strain of battle, and dashed forward, screaming and crying, to be cut down by the enemy. Other panic-stricken men "bugged out," or groveled in their foxholes, clawing at the earth. He turned away and hoped that would not happen...
When directors undertake to dust off Shakespeare plots, the noise of the vacuum cleaner all too often drowns out the play, but Director Tyrone Guthrie, a veteran of the Old Vic, never allows that to happen. The story of All's Well, lifted from Boccaccio, is about Helena, a poor physician's daughter married by royal command to a snobbish young count. The groom runs off to the wars before the wedding day has even reached the cocktail hour. The rest of the play tells how Helena plots her way into her husband's bedchamber and eventually...
...wartime the penalty for disobedience is death. You disobeyed orders. I will kill you. That is what would happen in the American Army also...
...Cabinet ministers) to the swank, open-air Argentina Club, by the waterfront at Phaleron Bay. Admission charge: $9 a head (drinks extra). Eleven finalists paraded, first in bathing suits, then in evening gowns. Outside the club, 200 policemen waited in their squad cars for something more exciting to happen. It soon...
...have a Communist coup d'état here. There will be nothing violent about it. We are just going to wake up one morning and say to ourselves: 'Good Lord! We have a pro-Tudeh government!' Then we are going to ask ourselves when did it happen-last night? Yesterday? Last week? A month ago? And we are not going to be able to answer...