Word: hideout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Bed Check was making a nuisance of himself again. Every night he came wheezing and clanking down from his North Korean hideout and bombed U.N. positions with 44-lb. mortar shells, apparently chucked over the side. For good measure, his rear-seat man did a bit of strafing with a burp gun. For two successive nights and twice each night, Bed Check attacked a U.S. airbase at Seoul. No one chuckled more heartily at the Air Force's embarrassment than U.S. foot-sloggers. They pointed gleefully to hurriedly dug foxholes around Air Force installations, howled when...
...Roberts; United Artists) extracts a full measure of excitement from the predicament of a family imprisoned in its own seamy flat by an unpredictable hoodlum (John Garfield) who turns the place into his hideout. Hunted by the police for murder and robbery, he lets members of the family out to perform their daily tasks-so long as one always stays behind as his hostage...
...deal with, including misty yogis like Nehru and notably unmisty commissars like Joseph Stalin. The biggest single factor that makes Mossadeq different is a religion that the West knows little about: Islam. Mossadeq is not devout, rarely goes to a mosque. But at home, as in his Parliament hideout, he lives almost as austerely as the founder of his faith (he eats little, owns only two suits, likes to dress no better than his chauffeur). Nowhere but in a Moslem country would the phenomenon of Mossadeq be possible...
...Chiang slowly moved toward Mao's hideout, Stalin moved to Mao's rescue. The new Comintern slogan was "united front" against the mounting fascist threat of Japan. It was successful. Chiang's campaign against the Communists was deflected and dissipated into resistance against a more powerful aggressor. The Chinese Red army was saved. It proceeded to expand spectacularly. During the eight years of the Japanese war, following Mao's directive "90% against the Kuomintang, 10% against the Japanese," it grew from 25,000 to 910,000 men, claimed control of 50 million people...
Walk Softly, Stranger (RKO Radio) tells an occasionally moving love story of two cripples, one moral, the other physical. Gambler Joseph Gotten arrives in small town Ashton, Ohio to establish a hideout and a new identity in preparation for holding up a New York gangster. He goes to work in the local factory and falls in love with the manufacturer's daughter (Valli), who has been confined to a wheelchair by a skiing accident. The stickup comes off on schedule, but when Cotten's Co-Thief Paul Stewart arrives in Ashton, the New York gunmen...