Word: onerousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arthur Rank's talent as a movie mogul-a talent which appears to consist, most importantly, in furnishing gifted people with the wherewithal and then leaving them severely alone (TIME, May 19). The film (the first English movie to play Manhattan's Music Hall since Clouds Oner Europe, in the cloudy year 1939) will probably fulfill its sponsors' great expectations-both financially and critically. Certainly most Dickensians will love it. And countless people who can't take Dickens are likely to hurry back to that author with a new understanding. Those who don't care...
...mortar houses, pitted its scrofulous, winding streets. After the shelling came the British tanks. After the tanks came the Gurkhas from India. They left their guns behind and moved like a scythe through the village with their curved steel kukris drawn. They came out with only one pris oner, a German officer. They had never seen a German officer and wanted to save him for a better view in the daylight...
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