Word: happening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President concluded: "I believe that hard work is not only a very, very fine thing for most humans but keeps them healthy. But there's also things happen to the human body, that after all maybe a man isn't described fully as healthy, and then there's another calculation to make . . . My mind at this moment is not fixed. If it were, I would say so right here this second. But my mind is not fixed to such and such an extent that it can't be changed...
Some even more improbable things happen-among them Roger Moore, who as Henry II invariably wears the expression of a peevish raisin. For a time, the spectator is able to identify himself with the plight of Henry, who is said to be in mortal danger from a frightful bore. As things turn out, the script is not referring to Lana-just some wild pig. So the boar gores, but the gore bores, and the only consolation is offered by Sir Cedric Hardwicke, who is all dressed up like a wizard and looks sorry he did it, even for all that...
...largely made by one man, Premier Nuri es-Said, 67, onetime officer in Ottoman Turkey's army, who is regarded by many as the ablest statesman in the Middle East. Last week Nuri was busy putting together a new administration. In one of those sudden flare-ups that happen in the Middle East (and rate a baffling, brief paragraph in the U.S. press), Nuri had gone to his 20-year-old king, Feisal II, to quit. Two hours later he had a new Cabinet, chosen to speed up the domestic-reform program Iraq has launched on the wave...
When a human diver descends to great depths, the nitrogen in his lungs tends to dissolve in his blood. When he comes to the surface, it forms bubbles that clog the circulation. This might not happen to whales if their lungs were full of oily foam. Oil has an affinity for nitrogen; it can absorb six times as much as blood can. Fraser & Purves think that when a whale dives, the nitrogen in the air of its lungs is absorbed by oil droplets before it gets into the blood. So the whale makes a deep dive and surfaces without suffering...
Artists and Models (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is an alarming example of what can happen when a picture is remade too often. No matter how vigilant the studio, slight changes creep into each new version, until at last some producer makes a movie that is almost original. In this film, for instance, there is hardly anything left of its two Paramount predecessors except the old, reliable title. In fact, when Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis have finished their indefatigable routine, there is very little of anything left...