Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hecht first saw Lancaster act in Burt's only stage venture, the 1945 Broadway flop A Sound of Hunting. They began talking independent production immediately, and two years later they had filmed the B-minus chiller Kiss the Blood off My Hands...
Despite his millions, Niarchos still remains a modest man. "People ask me," says he, " 'If your brother-in-law is worth $150 million, what are you worth?' I say. 'Maybe minus $150 million.' You can never tell what ships are worth. Why someday I may even have to sell the whole fleet for scrap iron." Few shipping men think that day will ever come-or, if it does, that Niarchos will lose money on the deal...
...lieutenant managed to wrest the gun from the Red agent and fire a shot into the air. Capitulating immediately, and terrified of official vengeance if he ever got back to Hungary, the agent begged Polyak to shoot him then and there. Polyak refused. Instead, dripping with gore and minus three front teeth, he went forward to the copilot's seat and, holding the agent's gun at the pilot's temple, took charge of the plane. Somewhere in the skirmish he had lost his map, but spotting an airfield and some jeeps in what he guessed...
...Southeast Asia, his SEATO is a defense treaty minus most nations in Southeast Asia. It disregards facts which Indo-China should have demonstrated--that Communism in that part of the world must be fought with something in addition to rifles, that fear of European colonialism often blinds Asians to the new colonialism of China. Moreover, by arming Pakistan, Dulles has upset the balance of power between India and Pakistan, and has forced Indian neutralism into a regrettable anti-U.S. attitude...
...just been informed that we have a handicap of minus fifteen. I don't know what this means yet so I'll keep limbering...