Word: lined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rocky. 1959 could be the big year for Cleveland to make its dying fall into the second division. There is a strong possibility that the Indians' pitching staff, long the envy of the majors, will fold completely. Herb Score has never been the same since Gil McDougald bounced a line drive off his eyeball, and paunchy Mike Garcia is about through. Other mound hopefuls Gary Bell, Mudcat Grant and Cal McLish will not inspire much fear in the opposition...
...midfield, the team has two interchangeable units. Comprising one line will be Dick Morgan, an extremely fast lefthander, Dick Parks, perhaps the best midfielder on the team, and Charlie Devens. John Gould, Tadgh Sweeney, and Dave Birch will make up the other line...
...Some Like It Hot, she proves what the psychiatrists, the social critics and press agents have been saying throughout the lengthy hiatus: she qualifies as one of the remarkable public personalities of the day. Her talent, as revealed in the film, lies in an ability to say every line as a double entendre-meanings that are not smutty because the listener thinks of both of them simultaneously. Her presence is like the telling of a dirty joke whose punch line everyone knows, and thus she is a clean, nay immaculate, dirty joke...
Throughout the play, his ideological and practical adversary is the police lieutenant, a good fellow who has swallowed the party line of building heaven on earth, and who regurgitates said line a little too often. As the lieutenant, Dean Gitter is properly obnoxious, and convinces one that he sincerely believes in the socialist doctrines he preaches. In his final conversation with the priest (adequately though not excitingly portrayed by Michael Mabry), he successfully conveys the impression that some human element is lacking in Utopian thought, while the priest presents the case for suffering...
...apron holds this time, an optimistic reader leaves Mother Advocate hoping she can put on weight. Slight as a pamphlet, Mother Advocate has only 20 pages, five fewer than the number of editors. She inspires the memory, in the mind of a reader 35 cents poorer, of a line commonly attributed to T.S. Mathews: "You held me on my tippy-tip-toes, but you never kissed...