Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan was beginning to get as complicated as the riddle of the chicken and the egg. If saving eggs meant that the farmers would save grain by cutting back their flocks, who would eat the additional poultry they sent to market? If distillers and brewers cut down, what would happen to their unemployed workers? Unlucky Chuck Luckman himself pointed up another question. Turning up in Cambridge for a Chamber of Commerce dinner on meatless Tuesday, he sat down to a heaping plate of fried chicken (see cut). But what was the gain in simply swapping chicken saved on Thursday...
...said it couldn't happen here? Screen testing for the 13 female roles in Veritas Films' first production, "Touch of the Times," began yesterday afternoon on the lawn outside Longfellow Hall. But the accent was on personality, rather than tight-fitting, oomph sweaters and seductive smiles...
...freight-handlers at Frankfurt Rhein-Main airport, it was just another box-a little on the heavy side, to be sure, but nothing out of the ordinary. They heaved it onto a hand-truck and dumped it in the storeroom. Shortly after midnight, strange things began to happen. A freight-handler saw the box move. Its lid lifted slowly and startled eyes glinted in the gloom. American Overseas Airlines Official William Waring investigated. "I opened the box," he told reporters later, "and saw a pair of eyes and some hair. Then she stepped out-no shirt...
From that moment, the improbable became the possible: the unpredictable Dodgers had a chance. Anything could happen: the Dodgers even tried to make the Lavagetto lightning strike twice. The Dodgers were in a fix again next day. Joe DiMaggio had slammed his second homer of the Series into the upper tier of the center-field stands, and the Yanks were leading. With two out in the ninth inning, the Dodgers had the tying run on second base. Pinch-Hitter Cookie Lavagetto stepped up to the plate-and struck out. Now the Yankees were in the lead, three games...
...even the acting suffers from failings of the plot when situations arise which either couldn't or just wouldn't happen. Joan Webster setting to sea in a small boat with the North sea equivalent of a typhoon approaching is almost credible. The naval officer going along against his better judgment is somewhat less credible. But when they are being swept into a whirlpool with the engine completely waterlogged, it requires a stretch of the audience's credulity to accept a last minute repair job that permits the boat to chug blithely away from the whirling maelstrom. Similarly, the happy...