Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stock characters of oldtime. Wild West melodrama are on hand. All of them are nicely preserved. Henry Fonda, as the half-reluctant, pistol-packing marshal of booming, lawless Tombstone, could hardly be better. Victor .Mature, who used to wander aimlessly through slick-haired juvenile roles before his 41-month hitch in the Coast Guard, actually does some acting as the dipsomaniac doctor-turned-renegade. Linda Darnell (a brunette for the last time before dyeing her hair honey-blonde to play Amber) is the lushly pretty dance-hall tart...
...Blow for Bobo. Early in the game Ruark had learned the nuisance value of heaving a rock at a greenhouse-if it was not too big a greenhouse. When he went to Washington, B.C. in 1936, he had a degree from the University of North Carolina, hitch in the merchant marine, and $4.25 in change. A copy boy's job gave him his toe hold on the Scripps-Howard Washington News. In a few months (and after ( few staff shakeups by Editor Lowell Mellett) the cocksure young Irishman was the paper's top sportswriter. One day he accused...
...mixup stems from the recently passed Ivy League eligibility requirements, which go only about halfway back from wartime relaxation to the old prewar dictum of "no freshmen on the varsity squad." The hitch comes in the ruling that all veteran first-year men will be permitted to play varsity ball, despite a general policy return to the "upperclassmen only" idea...
There was one hitch. The Wage Stabilization Board had to approve. Seldom had a Government board found itself in a hotter spot. To approve meant: 1) cracking once again the Administration's well-fractured wage line, 2) inciting C.I.O.'s Johnny to come back for another helping. To disapprove meant: 1) rejecting the principle of what everyone still insisted was collective bargaining, 2) infuriating A.F.L.'s Johnny. The hapless WSB took the second course. A.F.L.'s Johnny gave the Board one chance to change its mind, then struck...
There was one serious hitch: U.S. colleges were already bulging with their own students. Of the 50,000 foreign students banging on U.S. consulate doors, not one in ten will...