Word: nods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Advance to the Rear. Since any departure from formula comedy seems worthy, a slapstick farce about the Civil War perhaps deserves a nod for trying a different attack. This frolic manages, however, to be unremittingly fast, flip, energetic, and for the most part humorless. Based on a sober historical novel by Jack Schaefer (Shane), the movie attempts to spark laughs by logging the misadventures of Company Q, a detachment of Yankee misfits led by inept Colonel Melvyn Douglas and his wry-smiling lieutenant, Glenn Ford. The boobs under their command include a firebug, a flagpole sitter, a kleptomaniac, a skittish...
...them back home," he 'lowed. "Abigail will sit beside me feeding me grapes. Susie will be rubbing olive oil over my beautiful muscles. Cecilia will be shining my shoes, and there'll be Peaches, too. I don't know what she'll do. . . ." The listeners nod ded happily, realizing full well that this was a king's prerogative, especially a king from America...
...best-managed firm anywhere. One former A.T.&T. vice president wrote that the company's management system "is much the same as the Army's." A.T.&T. is a pure meritocracy, run by men who started at the bottom and worked up, step by step, winning the nod of many bosses along the way. The executives at A.T.&T. combine in themselves dedication, sense of service, awareness of public responsibility, invocation of old-fashioned virtues, puritan earnestness, Rotary Club friendliness, and a touch of self-righteousness They consider themselves a breed apart -and they are. They value continuity...
...Kennedy, it dropped 6.77 points in one day. As the bears saw it, this was the start of the major shake-out they had been expecting all along: it was time to dig in for a slide to well below 800. But the market barely gave them a passing nod before it turned around and galloped up 18 points in only eight trading days. Last week it set a new record of 830.17 before settling back at week's end to 828.57-and there was hardly a bear on the Street...
Under the new rules, almost all countries seem to feel free to pursue their own nationalistic interests, with only a nod now and then to the obligations of alliance...