Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best humorists--Gibbs, Thurber, Perleman--show up at their poorest (and this may not necessarily be poor as The Male Animal will show) in the theater. When genuinely talented men find the theater hard going there seems to be some evidence to support theories of too much pressure and very little tradition...
...years. Key to the Thomas style is the powerful spring in his left heel, developed by hours of lying on his back and hoisting 350-lb. weights with his legs. Approaching the bar from the left at a 37° angle, he takes seven progressively longer strides -then brakes hard on his left heel. He springs off the heel, kicks mightily with the right foot that sucks him into the air and belly-rolls him over...
...Remunerative angina" results when the patient gets a reward for his illness. It may be only emotional-sympathy and pampering. Or it can be hard cash from insurance. (This form is becoming less common now that the companies have got wise and refuse...
...Softest Touch." The TV headlines are a major example of one news medium complementing another. Panel-show producers shop long and hard to find a guest whose appearance will climax the week's headlines and thus stimulate new ones. For the guest stars there is a chance to reach TV mass audiences that no newspaper's circulation can match. For this opportunity, guests are willing to hold back choice news items -a practice that often arouses editors' ire but also stirs their interest, since Sunday is a dull news day, and Monday's papers are often...
...that, British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia replied tartly that it was hard to believe that "the entire national security of the U.S. would be imperiled if two turbines were built by her ally, Britain." He implied that a $1,757,210 contract could not make or break a vital industry, especially since there are five U.S. manufacturers of hydraulic turbines. Moreover, U.S. manufacturers have won 21 of the 23 important Government hydraulic-turbine jobs since 1952. Still unsatisfied, they are lobbying hard to bar foreign manufacturers from bidding...