Word: loads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disappointing film. At its best, melodrama should gull the spectator into believing what he sees, if only while he is seeing it. In working out Stage Fright's intriguing premise, Hitchcock tortures his story more than his audience, burdens them both with too obvious a load of improbabilities...
Throughout the Holy Land last week telephone lines crashed down, water pipes burst, roads were blocked by snow. For nearly two days, Jerusalem was cut off from the rest of the country. Buildings, including a stove factory in Jerusalem, collapsed under the heavy load of snow on the roofs. Israel's entire citrus fruit crop (the country's No. 1 export), the tomato crop and half of the estimated banana crop were destroyed...
Finally he launched into a campaign of speeches on every lecture platform he could find, including that of the Roman Catholic parochial school system, whose superintendent, Father Edward Leyden, was plagued with building shortages of his own. He used no oratory, but he had a load of facts & figures to throw at his audiences in talks of precisely 15 minutes. In 16 years, said he, Denver had built enough new schools for only 2,500 pupils, but enrollments had gone up 10,000 . . . More than 5,000 pupils were in schools over 60 years old ... more than...
...first white man's camp that Eskimo Ernenek ever saw on his hunting grounds in the Canadian Arctic made Ernenek tremble with curiosity. He decided to load his wife Asiak and the kids on his dog sled and pay the explorers a visit...
...plant. To keep the income stable, therefore, it must spread a smaller population thinner. It is working toward the removal of all upperclassmen from the Yard next fall. As a result, an indirect rent rise will be felt throughout the college, with incoming freshmen bearing the heaviest load. Thinning in the Houses is the first step in this unfortunate direction...