Word: neatest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neatest Communist maneuvers of the Chinese civil war was pulled off in November 1949 at Hong Kong's airfield, where 82 Nationalist transport planes had been flown in to presumed safety. Subverted by agents, most of their Chinese crews defected to the Reds. They grabbed eleven of the planes and took off for Mao's mainland. Hong Kong authorities announced that British recognition of the Communist government-then expected momentarily-would automatically give the Reds possession of the remaining 71 planes by right of inheritance. It was strange logic, explainable only by Hong Kong's greedy haste...
Eric Ambler can make more fictional sense out of Balkan intrigue than anybody now writing. In the late '305, when he last tried, he produced four of the neatest suspense stories of the decade: Background to Danger, Cause for Alarm, A Coffin for Dimitrios, Journey into Fear. What with the war (he wound up a lieutenant colonel), and scripting and producing postwar movies for J. Arthur Rank, Englishman Ambler has been pretty busy since those days. But he has managed to write another Balkan thriller, a fact for which Ambler fans can duly rejoice...
Eliot, playing perhaps the neatest game of its season, easily beat a poorly working Leverett quintet; the score at the half was 27 to 10. High man for the Elephants was Pete Collins with 12 points. The Bunnies' big scorers were Lewis Chizer and Ed Maroni, each scoring six points...
...rumors emanating from Kalimpong. The military situation as depicted from Kalimpong has no, repeat no, relation to the facts." Caught at their crystal-gazing, U.P.'s Sharma and others hastily reported that the Lama's "attempted flight" had been "prevented." But the Times of India did the neatest job of explaining: "A thick, almost impenetrable fog of rumor and fiction hangs over events transpiring on the Roof of the World...
...script's neatest trick, unfalteringly pulled off by Edmund Goulding's direction and Edmund Gwenn's superb acting, is to give the picture's closing episodes the winning quality of Miracle on 34th Street. Like Miracle, in which Actor Gwenn played a put-upon Santa Claus, Mister 880 works up the surefire comic-sentimental appeal of pompous authority melting in the warmth of an ingenuous little man of good will...