Word: heeled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jason's producers have mixed myths to suit their script: Hydra killing was Hercules' specialty, not Jason's. And they have dreamed up monsters Jason never saw, including a steam-powered King Kong, built of bronze, with a drain plug in its heel. The straight story of Jason's exploits, told with magic and imagination and a minimum of studio trickery, might have been delightful. This version is more bull than Bulfinch...
...whole force of the rebel army . . . We were not to attack but to be attacked . . . The ground upon which we were driven to accept battle was wonderfully favorable to us . . .It was in form an elongated and somewhat sharpened horseshoe, with the toe to Gettysburgh and the heel to the south. "Lee's plan of battle was simple. He massed his troops upon the east side of this shoe position and thundered on it obstinately to break it ... Unflinching courage and complete discipline of the army of the Potomac repelled the attack . . . The marvellous outspread up on the board...
...Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Brandon de Wilde and Patricia Neal make up almost the entire cast of this magnificently pungent film about an unregenerate heel, a decent old man, and a boy who makes a choice of heroes...
...Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Brandon De Wilde, and Patricia Neal make up almost the entire cast of this magnificently pungent film about an unregenerate heel, a decent old man, and a boy who makes a choice of heroes...
British Shoe, said Clore, had followed what appeared to be a trend away from the pointed-toe, stiletto-heel shoe toward the lower heel and square tip that became briefly popular in the U.S. and on the Continent. But in England hardly anybody bought them, and stiff-uppered British Shoe was left with an inventory estimated to be as high as 200,000 pairs. Clore blamed the loss on British fashion writers, charged them with marching into the square toe at the head of a nonexistent army...