Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squad is not expected to provide very serious opposition for coach Jack Barnaby's players, and the Crimson coach will again be provided with an opportunity to test his lower ranking players in various doubles combinations against the top of the BU lineup...
...Cobb is a self-made man from the lower East Side with a neurotic desire to see the boy convicted because of his own son's ingratitude, and Ed Begley plays a bigoted garage owner, his vote founded on an unfounded distinction between himself and his slum clientele. Jack Warner is a cold and prim broker, a man used to having his opinions deferred to, and E. G. Marshall, as the quick-minded old widower, is the only man to give credence to the young architect Fonda's "reasonable doubt" at first...
Slammin' Sam was wisecracking with relief. He was one slim stroke in front of a jammed-up field, still within easy reach of such familiar figures as Doug Ford, San Francisco Amateur Harvie Ward and Defending Champion Jack Burke Jr. A new tournament rule, restricting the final two rounds to the top 40 players, had eliminated such venerable Masters as Golf Professor Ben Hogan and Dentist Gary Middlecoff, 1956 Open champion. But there were 18 rough holes and 39 rugged competitors left...
...Jack-Rabbit Start. Free piston engines are still full of bugs, but their seemingly indirect way of generating power has its points. Since the combustion gases start their work cycle at extremely high pressure and temperature, the thermal efficiency of the engine (the amount of mechanical energy that it gets out of the fuel) can be very good. It has no flywheel, crankshaft or connecting rods. It has many valves to shunt air through the various chambers, but they are all self-operating, and none are exposed to high temperature. The engine can be made to run on almost...
...Mann, who made Marty. The scenes in the subway and the office are first-rate epigrams of locale. The reluctant groom C Philip Abbott) is a hilarious but touching study of altar nerves ("She's going to expect a lot. She's a widow"). The hardened bachelor (Jack Warden), young but not so young as he used to be, is also pathetic. "Home?" he laughs. "What do I wanna go home fuh? I awready read alia papuhs." But nobody is fooled. And this is what Paddy Chayefsky truly understands and poignantly expresses: that loneliness is really a kind...