Word: parsley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Try. Joe Curran's game had started weeks ago. To Joe's porkchop demands his Communist associates had added some ideological parsley. It was high time "to halt the drive of shipowners . . . towards a new and more devastating world war." So Joe said blithely: "Hit the bricks June 15," knowing that 73,000 East Coast seamen would obey...
...Dick's bride." Mrs. Roy Anthony, in charge of the angel food cakes, scoffed: "Worried? Why, no. I've never had a failure, so why would I now, when it's for Mr. Churchill?" Grocer John Renner summed up Fulton's big day: "Hell, enough parsley to decorate the gymnasium...
...stuff: the detective who leaves his bride on their wedding night, the client who suspects that the suicide is really murder, the wife whose hobby is love affairs, the mysterious house guest and, finally, the newly invented explosive. But it is served up with such a flourish of fresh parsley that you'd hardly recognize it as warmed-over hash...
...Spirit (Universal) climbs likably if loutishly aboard one of the only two "trends" discernible in rudderless current movies. Like Wonder Man and Where Do We Go From Here?, it is a comic fantasy. (The other trend, well represented by Conflict-see above-is crime melodrama with Freudian parsley...
...Parsley. Said the new Soviet Ambassador: The people of the Soviet Union feel "friendship and deep respect" for the U.S. people, are grateful for "receiving from the friendly American people not only moral, but substantial material sup port. . . ." The U.S.-British campaigns in North Africa and Sicily were "remarkable successes...