Word: homefront
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...German accent, plays "the young, golden god of war"; Montgomery Clift is a tenement Jew persecuted in his barracks; Dean Martin portrays the Broadway high-liner who goodhumoredly admits his own cowardice. And in an example of sophisticated sex, May Britt takes the part of a German commander's homefront spouse--a sort of Berlin community bed-warmer with those "rest your head here, soldier" eyes and a half-mast evening gown leaving only the moral question to a man's imagination...
...tackled its immense long-term problems (the economy is stagnant, and overcommitted-by as much as 37% of its foreign trade-to the Soviet bloc). Addressing his new one-party Parliament early in the week, Nasser seemed almost too subdued to be true. He summarized his regime's homefront achievements ("Our greatest gain is hope"), and bore down on the need to "build, build, build, to make up for the past, to face the future." Said Nasser: "We must always remember that our people are increasing by more than 300,000 new citizens every year...