Word: mule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...held for the month of peace-if it lasted that long. The most important pre-truce drive was an unsuccessful Israeli effort to reopen the road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Anticipating failure, the Jews had hacked a primitive trail through the hills south of the main road. There mule trains, jeeps, and slogging men kept a trickle of supplies flowing into Jerusalem. A Jewish commander called it "our Burma Road...
Frontier Town. Brazil-born son of a British missionary, Dr. Jim settled in Anapolis, he says, "because it just couldn't go any place but forward." It was a junction point for mule trains then, had "only two simple streets and a dozen houses." Fanstone was the first to practice surgery in the region; until then, appendicitis was known as "knotted bowels" and you "either got well or died by yourself." He brought in the first X-ray machine, the first elevator; his six-story hospital was the first skyscraper...
...passes a palace and mule-and camel-crowded courtyards, and, bristling with beggars, jugglers, doctors, fortunetellers, scholars, salesmen and young blades on the loose, arches over a river where freight and pleasure boats lie moored in clusters...
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (20th Century-Fox) would undoubtedly make a big hit with mules; presumably they already know what the title means (gee & haw in mulese). The leading roles in this movie are played by two of the most gorgeous, henna hay-burners that ever plodded out of a studio make-up salon. The picture may also appeal to some children; it tells how a horde of anti-mule, glue-factory-minded grownups are foiled by a pro-mule boy (Lon McCallister) and his girl (June Haver). Adult people and horses may resent the film's hee-hawed...
Senator James P. Kem, Republican of Missouri, get in the first cracks of the evening, claiming that the GOP "supported and stood on the principles of the Constitution." The Democrats, he said, were like a "one-eyed mule--a left eyed mule--leaning forever to the left and close to falling into the ditch...