Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night of Oct. 29, when Israel attacked Egypt, the Sixth Fleet was busy with a complex landing exercise in Suda Bay, Crete. It speedily reboarded its marines and beached equipment overnight and headed east. Soon its destroyer groups and attack transports were slipping into Haifa, Gaza and Alexandria to pick up U.S. citizens and U.N. workers while the sleek grey carriers maneuvered in battle formations below the horizon. At one point, combat-ready marines were all set to storm through to Cairo just in case the Egyptians tried to prevent Americans from leaving, but the marines relaxed when the Egyptians...
Such were Allen's tributes to vaudeville. But he loved it, despite its leeching managers and overnight hops, shoebox lunches and tank-town audiences. To him, it was a school of inventive self-reliance peopled with lovable oddballs. A gaudy branch of human botany, vaudeville finds in Fred Allen an affectionate and scrupulous botanist who cherishes every last contortionist, hypnotist, iron-jawed lady, human xylophone, one-armed cornetist, rube comedian, Hindu conjurer and clay modeler who ever played a split week east of Lompo,. Calif. or west of Maiden, Mass...
...report, the company warned that "no miracle can overnight create sufficient capacity for every person wishing to park at the University. Steps are being taken to reach this goal, but until it is reached, the available space must be rationed or allocated, based on true need...
...course, is expecting that headlines from Suez or Hungary or Iraq or South Africa are going to change overnight. But even if the President and the Prime Minister have no pat solutions to the world's dilemmas--and the chances are they do not--a more realistic relationship between the two nations is likely to evolve if each leader teaches the other a few of the facts of modern life...
...than sheer enjoyment found described a way of life exactly to their taste. The cynical, lusty tale of the love life of two brothers and their single girl friend was promptly transcribed into a movie whose uninhibited fidelity to detail would have whitened a Hollywood censor's hair overnight. More books and more movies followed, each proclaiming in brutish simplicity the joys of pointless violence and casual lust. The first novel lent its name to the cult of its worshipers, and the worshipers returned the compliment by doing their best to imitate the book. Mostly the offspring of well...