Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chemical drums exploded like cannon and the fire spread to other trucks; soon tons of meat, eggs, gasoline, cleaning solvent and rags were flaming. River-hemmed Manhattan, which must pump its lifeblood of traffic through overtaxed and distended arteries, reacted like a great organism with a crippling blood clot. As the tunnel's twin tubes were closed, streams of traffic stagnated and honked around its approaches. Electrical cables in the tunnel burned through and the big city's communications began to fail-some radio programs were cut off, Teletypes stopped, 50% of New York's south...
That is the country West Pointer Van Fleet must help to peace and order...
Intercollegiate yachting calls mainly for two crack sailors from each school, since most regattas consist of a series of short race in "A" and "B" divisions with only one boat from each school in each race. But a strong sailing college must have a well rounded squad, because as many as three regattas may occur on the same day and occasional races in which more than two men can enter are held...
Skippering dinghies is quite a different chore from sailing bigger boats. Even the most experienced sloop sailor must learn the knack of getting the most out of a dinghy. Weighing little over 100 pounds dinghies are extremely sensi-tive and touchy, and one can't relax for an instant...
...actual fighting scenes are better than anything in recent films. Douglas must have spent a long time learning to hit people and be hit, for he is never, as was Lardner's Midge, "stopped by a terrific slap on the forearm." The women in the movie are less convincing--the spectator is never more moved by them than is the hero, who shuttles from one to the next with singular unconcern. They aren't very important, anyway: once Kelly begins fighting, he is always a fighter and only sporadically a human being...