Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When this sort of thing was offered to U.S. moviegoers in the first film version (1942) of Graham Greene's thriller, This Gun for Hire, many of them were deeply impressed. It was felt that Hollywood had passed a milestone and that He (Alan Ladd) and She (Veronica Lake) were the latest and the greatest. In the interval, however, most customers have learned, from Hollywood's mistakes, the difference between the touchingly insane and the pathetically inane, and this remake is less apt to frazzle nerves than to tickle funny bones...
...governor of the nation's second largest state, he has played a moderate, mediocre role, with the paradoxical support of organized labor and the L.A. Times --which doesn't hire union members. He blamed smog on incinerators instead of industry, and opposed a "right-to-work" law. He is a pleasant sort of a man, with a likeable grin...
...disemboweled and dissected. Soon afterward, local justice learned the reason. A native woman had a grudge against her son because he had thrown her second husband's bow and arrows out of his hut (a grave insult). With the support of her sister, she sent a messenger to hire a lionman from a.sorcerer in the next village. "It was a human being," the messenger told the court, "and it was a woman. It walked like a dog and it sat like a dog. Its head was like a human, but it was covered with a lion skin...
...company in 1920 (the Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co. last year grossed $176,464,666), spread his empire into many fields, including pioneer production of lightweight (aluminum) luggage. Halliburton belittled the "good old days" as days of backbreaking labor, heralded instead modern "mechanization," once (in 1935) proclaimed he would hire no one who had ever accepted government relief...
...Mathematical Tables from Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, KOL came across with an Encyclopaedia Britannica and a world atlas. Occasionally an adult volunteer would drop in to help with the answers. By last week Bob was getting more than 200 phone calls a night, and KOL was planning to hire an assistant and provide extra telephone lines...