Word: leans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week in the hostile white heart of Antarctica. The British Commonwealth land expedition, led by 49-year-old Scientist-Explorer Vivian Ernest Fuchs, is battling toward the air-supplied U.S. base at the South Pole, and will probably get there in a few more days. Geologist Fuchs, lean veteran of 30 years of scientific exploration in Greenland, Africa and Antarctica, has announced that he intends to press on, in spite of the threat of worsening weather, and hopes to reach Scott Station on the Ross Sea about March 9. If he crosses Antarctica from sea to sea, he will...
...Bridge on the River Kwai. David Lean's magnificently ironic, savage adventure story, developed into a tragic exploration of the unmeaning of life; with Alec Guinness, William Holden (TIME...
Frank Pace, a lean man with worry-free eyes, had a lot of other things on his mind that morning, as befits a man who manages a missile-age empire-and who reached that top post in four short years. An Arkansas-born wonder boy. Pace was U.S. Budget Director (under Harry Truman) at 36 and Secretary of the Army at 37-two jobs that prepared him well for the presidency of General 1 Dynamics, a Arm that does 85% of its business with the Government...
...Scoring three touchdowns in the first seven minutes of the last period, lean, swift Oklahoma routed Duke in the Orange Bowl, 48-21. For Oklahoma, the victory salved some of the sting of this season's Notre Dame defeat that snapped its 47-game winning streak...
...Board of Review of Motion Pictures-the weightiest U.S. cinematic arbiters-announced their "best" choices, found themselves agreeing more than usual. Both groups marked The Bridge on the River Kwai (Sam Spiegel; Columbia) as the year's finest U.S.-produced film, Bridge's Alec Guinness and David Lean as best actor and director. Other decisions were split. Best actress: Deborah Kerr in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (Critics), Joanne Woodward in The Three Faces of Eve (Board). Best foreign movie: Gervaise (Critics), Ordet (Board...