Word: lying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acting, I feel compelled to report that there was much more flubbing of lines than charity can allow on an opening night. The cast could thus not put across all the crackling wit and fanciful poetry that lie in the script...
...American liner Stockholm were testing their first night at sea. The 12,644-ton Stockholm, more tourist than tony, had sailed shortly before noon that day from Manhattan for Copenhagen. After she slipped out into the Hudson River, she idled in the stream while the larger (44,356 tons) lie de France swung from her pier down the Hudson. Then in file the two ships moved past Manhattan's towers, out through the Narrows into the open sea. By 11 p.m. Stockholm, lie de France and Andrea Doria were all churning through the busy, often angry water south...
...freighter, Cape Ann, for a 55-minute run to Andrea Dona's side. The military transport, Private William H. Thomas, was 20 miles away. The destroyer escort Edward H. Allen, cruising off the coast in gunnery practice, was closing a 52-mile gap. And the old but agile lie de France, which had been running at 17 knots 45 miles to the east, had come hard about, kicked up to 22. and promised to reach Andrea Doria within two hours...
...prepared to hurry off again that same night towards France. Some 30 of the survivors were gently carried on stretchers from the ship's infirmary down a gangway to waiting ambulances. On the fantail a weeping Andrea Doria officer called 100 men to a last muster. Commented lie de France's Captain de Beaudean: "Altogether, it was like being back in the war years." Ninety minutes later Cape Ann, no less a hero, docked at Andrea Doria's pier with 129 survivors. In Brooklyn Thomas arrived with 150-odd, Allen with...
...initial rebel successes have diminished since the French moved 400,000 soldiers into Algeria. Mobile, hard-hitting French columns inflicted heavy losses on rebel formations and slowly drove them deep into the high plateaus that lie behind Algeria's coastal regions. By the beginning of summer, the rebels were losing their enthusiasm for open combat, and in the Kabylia alone 250 villages once again "rallied to France." With the military campaign going so well, the French government decided it was time to try the second phase of Premier Guy Mollet's policy for pacifying Algeria-the "parallel" program...