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Word: mikes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dialogue ranges from fifth to mawkish sentimentality. Walter Abel, as Captain Mike Dorgan, alternates between swallowing nobly and delivering impassioned speeches into a ship-to-shore phone, which scare the daylights out of his six WAVES. At length, however, his more elevated sentiments blossom forth, and he breaks into a rousing chorus of "For Those in Peril on the Sea." The less said of the rest of the acting the better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Long Watch | 2/21/1952 | See Source »

...Mike Di Salle offered Arnall some genial advice on how to "grin & bear" the trials of OPS. Arnall will be facing three trials in short order: 1) the price-wage dispute in the steel industry; 2) the program of partial decontrols, already launched by Di Salle; 3) congressional hearings on the new price and wage stabilization bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: New Boss for OPS | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...left the Office of Price Stabilization this week to run for the Senate, Michael V. Di Salle (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) told reporters: "You just cannot imagine how silly one feels signing orders decontrolling dinosaur skeletons, sun dials . . . and even stuffed elephants . . ." Just before leaving, Mike was seized once more by that silly feeling. The OPS dropped price controls from nonprofit summer camps operated by churches, lodges, etc. which charge less than $30 a week. Reason: OPS had found out that "most summer camps were not in operation [during the price-freeze base period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Silly, Isn't It? | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...Tall Men, he plays Sergeant "Mike," the tallest and the strongest of the ten men who save a French Colony from the claws of the Sheik's marauders. In doing so the sergeant wins a medal and a very remarkable princess--very remarkable because she can ride horseback for hours, wearing only gauze pants and a halter, without getting even sore knees...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Ten Tall Men | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

Yale, a slight favorite, managed to turn the meet into a rout by stringing together a series of above-average performances. Mike Stanley, who proved himself a potentially great runner today, and Tod Lewis led the Elis with two wins apiece. Stanley, in addition to winning the 1000 in near record time, ran away from the Crimson's Dave Cairns to take the mile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Beats Varsity and Freshman Track Teams; Berman and Ray Win | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

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