Word: lined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BOLD VENTURE-"The program's potential for harm may be lessened by the bad acting, the bad writing and absurd story line that deaden somewhat the impact on the viewer...
...Felt, U.S. commander in the Far East, to airlift arms and equipment to the scene of trouble. With those two orders, and with the publicizing of them at his press conference, President Eisenhower threw still another major force into the struggle: he laid U.S. prestige on the jungle line in Laos almost as surely as he once committed it along the rocky shores of Quemoy-Matsu and upon the hot sands of Lebanon...
...process they have met with little effective political opposition. Although more liberal in other matters, the largely British-backed United Party generally supports Prime Minister Verwoerd right down the apartheid line. High-minded little groups such as Novelist Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton's Liberal Party have got nowhere...
...Kowloon's alleys-some of the widest are only 6 ft. across-prostitutes peer from hundreds of dark doorways, and hordes of emaciated Chinese line up outside tiny, shuttered shops to buy pinches of heroin (at 5? a pinch), then squat on a corner to inhale it through rolled paper tubes or matchbox funnels. The dingy restaurants serve dog and cat meat supplied by members of Triad, Kowloon's secret society, which also operates the booming gambling, narcotics and prostitution rackets...
Drifting south to Los Angeles, he went to work as a TV announcer. Within a month, the station was hit by a strike. Douglas' reaction: he conned three actors off the picket line and sold them (complete with sponsors) to a competing channel...