Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some stars play along with the racket because crack writers are tough to come by, must be pampered. According to Hollywood folklore, Jack Benny once used a quick series of five plugs which furnished the home of a writer who was about to get married. But a writer often has to exercise all his creative talents to ease in a plug. Working on a racing yarn, one writer yearned to plug a well-known drug product. Solution: he named a race horse Anahist...
...Quixote's crime was not his madness but his faith. So is it in today's world of analytic couches. "It is my reason that laughs at my faith," wrote Spain's top Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936). "And it is here that I must betake me to my Lord Don Quixote in order that I may learn of him how to confront ridicule and overcome it." Don Quixote overcame it by letting the world overcome him. "The divine tragedy is the tragedy of the Cross," said Unamuno. "The human tragedy is the tragedy...
...informality gives priests plenty of leeway in where they go and what they do, though they are not often seen in nightclubs. But in modern Italy a priest watching a soccer match-much less a floor show or a movie-is out of bounds. Priests must always wear their cassocks in public, are not supposed to smoke on the street or push baby carriages or carry large parcels, ride horseback except in rural areas, or eat alone at first-class restaurants. A priest should not be seen walking often with the same female-even his aged aunt-and a priest...
Dawkins soon found that U.S. football and rugby are as different as chalk and cheese. Rugger players wear no padding, kick on the run, cannot block downfield or throw a forward pass. When a back is tackled, he must release the ball so it can be put back in play by the nearest man. Playing for Brasenose College before a handful of fans scattered through bare wooden stands, Dawkins at first pulled a tyro's gaffes. He kept up a steady stream of American-style pepper talk until he learned that tradition allows only the captain to chatter encouragement...
...industry. It is soft enough to be a good dry lubricant; its high heat resistance makes it a good material for crucibles and as a moderator in nuclear reactors. In the new age of rocketry, scientists have eyed it for use in rocket nozzles or in nose cones, which must resist the heat of reentry. But ordinary graphite has two faults: it is permeable to gases and is structurally so weak that it crumbles when subjected to high-velocity rocket exhaust...