Word: namelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing but fragments and figments, DeMille turned four writers loose on the job of working up a convincing script. They telescoped the Biblical account, invented some new sequences, tinkered with motivations, added characters, threw in some dancing girls. Major change: Delilah became the younger sister of the nameless Philistine woman who was the Biblical Samson's wife. The final adaptation skillfully manages to achieve the most serviceability for the screen with the least violence to Scripture. Its best job is to create conviction in Samson's feats: e.g., his slaughter with the jawbone of an ass looks plausible...
...hopping about on the fringes of the fray, on one occasion with his good friend, Henry Wallace. He cried that the assessed valuation of rich men's buildings was being reduced, that recipients of city welfare were about to be starved, that vested interests would release torrents of nameless horrors if he were not elected. He also complained that someone had thrown old cantaloupes at him from a building...
...behind to run Western Berlin as though it were simply 2,000,000 people. U.S. High Commissioner John McCloy makes only short visits to his OMGUS office. The halls of the building that was Clay's command post echo" now to the irrelevant footsteps of janitors, shuffling past nameless doors...
Working with Technician Jessamine Hilliard, West noted that the milk-curdling property of blood varies with the patient's health. He attributed this to the relative strength of two enzyme inhibitors. These two inhibitors are mysterious, complex substances, not yet isolated and still nameless. They serve as policemen, regulating the action of the two enzymes: rennin (found mainly in the stomach) and chymotrypsin (in the pancreas). Both the enzymes are ferments which curdle milk. Their inhibitors circulate in the bloodstream...
...ease. To the repeated ovations he received he ducked his head abruptly again & again, like a small boy after a commencement speech. He cringed visibly from the photographers' flashbulbs, mopped his brow, twiddled his spectacles. During speeches, his long fingers seemed to be tapping out some nameless composition on his forearm...