Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recognized by the breaking of bread at Emmaus (Luke 24:30, 35), by eating a piece of broiled fish in Jerusalem (Luke 24:42), and by cooking breakfast for Peter and his friends (John 21:9-12). Such scriptural sources and sauces have been tapped for a brand-new manual of Christian cookery, The Bible Cookbook (Bethany Press; $3.95). Author Marian Maeve O'Brien, food editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, teaches Sunday-school at Grace Episcopal Church in suburban Kirkwood, and her Biblical studies have well served her culinary know...
Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), refuses to let his officers do manual work. The Geneva Convention, he informs Saito, expressly forbids it. Saito smiles. He is a Japanese officer, and he will show the arrogant British who is master...
After such a climax, a letdown seems inevitable; but Scriptwriter Boulle has capped his climax with a splendid stroke of irony. Having risked his life for the principle that captured officers shall not do manual work, the colonel now decides that they shall. They shall do it, he announces, to the horror of his subordinates, because the British prisoners are not going to sabotage the bridge; they are going to build it; and in building it, they will not only "teach these Japanese a lesson," they will build the health and the morale of the entire battalion...
...bestselling book, Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary. Anybody who enjoyed the book had better skip the picture-as usual, Hollywood has changed the story. The new one does not end with "zymurgy." but with "clinch."' And besides, it sounds less like Webster than the Army Manual, read upside down and backwards at the top of a top kick's lungs. In short, OMB is routine regimental farce, but fast and snafurious...
stick: the bar, a synecdoche from an era when most bars featured manual pumps...