Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...success, then made ready for her announced retirement. Observers noted that changes had come over the volcanic isle of Stromboli, the film's major setting: village belles were wearing their hair in the windblown Bergman manner, children were prattling in English, most of the natives were moviestruck. Like Ingrid herself, Stromboli would never be quite the same after her visit...
...Braves have been dragging along ten or more games behind the pace-setting St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers, and like all good managers, Southworth hates to lose. A high-strung man who gave up drinking 14 years ago when he realized that alcohol had him down, he has been afflicted this summer with headaches and insomnia. "I never used to know what other fellows meant when they talked about headaches," said Billy...
...Japanese swimming style, especially that of Prodigy Furuhashi. Instead of the standard six-beat leg kick, carefully synchronized with the arm strokes, he uses a slower, but very powerful kick which at times is not in rhythm with his arm movements at all. His arms revolve stiffly like bicycle pedals; he rides low in the water and, especially to flabbergasted U.S. competitors, he looks like a weird, power-driven machine...
...stands 5 ft. 7 in., has developed an imposing chest and tremendously muscular legs and arms. Every day, when he is not actually racing, he swims 4,000 to 10,000 meters. Hearing all this, a disgruntled U.S. swimmer said: "You call that amateur swimming? It sounds to me like professionalism...
...Like more than 15,000 boys & girls who have gone through Freeville or one of its offshoots* since Manhattan Manufacturer William George founded his Junior Republic in 1895, they were neither delinquent nor retarded but had the problems that come from bad home and neighborhood environments. Their goal during their stay at the Republic: to work out a good "adjustment...