Word: outdoors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...movie attendance for the last week of July topped all records, as 82,300,000 people went to the flicks to cool off. A second record from the computers of Hollywood's Pollster Albert Sindlinger: 52,100,000 of the moviegoers were found at drive-ins, largest outdoor attendance ever...
Each guardsman must be 6 ft. tall, a practicing Catholic of "good" family. All are unmarried (except officers); all must sign up for five years of long, lonely hours patrolling Vatican corridors; only a lucky few draw outdoor posts. Fraternization with civilians is forbidden. The guards worship in their own chapel in Vatican City, have their own canteen, even their own cemetery. Pay is low, and there is a 10 p.m. curfew in summer, 9 p.m. in winter...
...millionaire's retreat 135 miles from New York), cars (a Bentley, a Cadillac, four others). He loves speed, often commutes in his fast 65-ft. aluminum P-T boat to his office in the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center (of which he is chairman). He enjoys muscle-straining outdoor exercise, chops wood regularly. And he does not worry about his investments. Last week's plunge of space-age stocks left him unconcerned. Says he: "It looks like a long overdue technical correction. The current basic trend of the market...
Except for some bracing outdoor scenes, shot in southern Arizona, of amber plains, crystalline streams and Corot-cool forests, strikingly composed by Director John (The Old Man and the Sea) Sturges, the picture is mostly one long, gun-slinging showdown that fairly oozes blood and bathos. One tough gets his right through a poker table, another is mowed down by a sawed-o^ shotgun at close range. The hell-bent kid is killed by mistake by one of his own saddle-bum chums...
Summer School students can also work through the Student Employment Office, especially outdoor jobs such as house painting, gardening or tending lawns...