Search Details

Word: harrumphs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...phase of mercenary activity, and with it came bad news. South African Mercenary Commander Michael Hoare flew back to Leopoldville to inform Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe that he did not plan to renew his six-month contract. With starchy, spit-and-polish "Mad Mike" threatening to issue his last harrumph, other battle-hardened officers in Tshombe's dwindling mercenary force talked bitterly of quitting with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Trouble for the Mercenaries; Help for the Rebels | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

...admiral bellows one night in a manic epiphany. "The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor! We'll build him a monument -the Tomb of the Unknown Sailor." Telegrams crackle, Joint Chiefs harrumph, orders arrive, engines clamor, machine guns cachinnate, and sure enough, the first dead man on Omaha Beach turns out to be-Garner. Next day every daily in the U.S. front-pages his picture, but a week later the corpse turns up alive. "Omigawd!" gasps the officer (James Coburn) in charge of public relations. "Instead of a dead hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In Praise of Cowardice | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

...fault is important but not dominant. Williams can horselaugh as well as harrumph, and it's an absolute delight to watch the most perverse of playwrights tell a tale in which the nadir of naughtiness is attained by a man with a harmless though peculiar passion for ladies' underwear. Huston, what's more keeps Iguana scuttling along at a right smart rate, and as always he shrewdly challenges his actors with delegated creativity. They all respond. Kerr lends charm and finesse to a meaching masochist. As for Burton, he makes more sense in this movie than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Imaginary People, Real Hearts | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Next