Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Page after page Monocle employs the lead sock and mailed fist on modern civilization, its low-life and its literature. Gone is the gentle velvet touch or the cultivated wit; in its place--attended by the three old shrews of overstatement, needless elaboration, and editorial foot-note--is the effective finesse of the piledriver. Monocle Credits cleverly mention precisely what the author's parodying, to allay the confusion...
...Sunday, Dr. N. Glatzer, Professor of Jewish History and Chairman of the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, will lead a discussion in Hebrew at Hillel House...
When the caravan stopped 100 miles away before an aging villa in Dresden, Topping, as a "guest," was allowed to lead the way inside, came suddenly face to face with the nine American prisoners. Some were dressed, some were in underwear, and all were obviously startled to find they had visitors. Before any loaded question could be asked or rash answer given, Topping quickly dug his Defense Department credentials card from his hip pocket, flashed it before the eyes of his suspicious compatriots and said: "Topping, Associated Press. May I see your senior officer?" Out of the group stepped Major...
Because of production lead time, the actual cash payments from the Pentagon went up more slowly, reaching $38.7 billion for the year, v. the $39.1 billion expected. The shortfall throws that much more actual spending over into fiscal 1959. Last week the Defense Department scratched the most recent estimate for 1959 spending of $40.5 billion and wrote in $40.7 billion, probably only the first of several upward revisions...
...with the prettiest horse-who is about to marry The Girl (Patricia Owens) -she's the one with the gingham dress-when they are kidnaped by The Bad Guy (Richard Widmark)-he's the one with the occupational sneer-who forces them to lead him to The Buried Treasure. First they cross The Bad Lands, then they encounter The Bluecoats, later they come to The Ghost Town, finally they are attacked by The Indians-a tribe of cosmetic Comanches who bite the dust as delicately as though it were crepes suzette. At the climax, The Good...