Word: loading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best type of load for an ed on the heat is a rather innocuous one that raises the question, "What the Hell is this guy leading up to?" For an example of the innocuous, What-the-Hell, type of lead, reference should be made to the first line of this epic. As for the remainder of the editorial following the lead, it was felt that there was not much to be said--not in print. However, if you are really interested in learning something significant about the hot weather, it has been reliably asserted by the oldest inhabitant, "It really...
...bruited about Cambridge last March, and it has fought that way through obstacles which would have beaten most planners into mute submission. Lack of food, unobtainable military permits, money troubles, and countless smaller difficulties plagued the seminar plan from the start; as they say themselves, those who carried the load sometimes still cannot believe they are here...
...accumulated quantities of unsold newsstand copies of TIME. They were stacked in a warehouse in the Moslem section of Calcutta and TLI's distributor, a Hindu like most Indian businessmen, did not dare try to recover them. Baker located a bearer who was a Christian and helped load the back copies of TIME into a truck himself. Later, the bearer, "a likeable, inoffensive little chap," was kidnapped by a band of Moslems who mistook him for a Hindu and wanted to kill him. He finally convinced them that he was a Roman Catholic by showing his crucifix and answering...
...grocer's helper; all evening he would fill his little wooden wagon with goods, and at midnight he started his laborious deliveries to the scattered cottages on the mountainside; at the edge of town a small, bespectacled man would meet him and help him pull the heavy load. It was his father, who always tried to make things easier...
When prize-day came, however, neither nation brought home a very hefty load of bacon. Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (Rank) was awarded honors as the best production job of 1946; but a U.S. picture was the only one to receive more than one award. William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (Goldwyn) was honored as the best story (by Robert E. Sherwood from a MacKinlay Kantor novel), and Myrna Loy was named the year's best actress for her work in the picture. Brussels' equivalent to Hollywood's Oscar, a bronze...