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...year is 1820. A boy (Donald McDonald) and his father (Burt Lancaster) set their feet on the long way west from Kentucky to Texas. First town they come to, Paw gets himself in trouble with the sheriff and lands in the local stockade, but a bondslave (Dianne Foster), who has mysteriously acquired a henna rinse, sets him free. In gratitude, plainly mixed with motives that make better box office, Burt buys up her indenture with his "Texas money" and takes her along to fry his taters...
Born on a tabletop in Joe's Café, The dirtiest place in the U.S.A., Killed his paw with TNT . Killed his maw with...
...narrow-brimmed fedora and pants that hovered uncertainly halfway down his hips. The bull took one look at him and seemed frankly baffled. The band struck up a rumba, and Cantinflas, stomping his feet to the rhythm, moved in with his cape. For a while the bull seemed to paw the ground in time to the music, too. Then, as the music changed to a tango, Cantinflas glided in and made a series of passes without ever losing a step or even treading on the bull's feet. Finally Cantinflas pulled the bull's tail and planted...
...Freshman Union, that never-never land of mysterious regulation, life is systemized--from the distance you can carry a magazine to the number of playable pool balls. Everything, in fact, except the under-the-counter dealings. Despite signs to the contrary, certain kitchen boys hired from the streets to paw out the French bread have never seen Ivory, or what it floats...
...that Dixon-Yates contract already has caused your administration a lot of trouble and embarrassment. But you ain't seen nothin' yet unless you step in and straighten out the mess. You've got coming up a rambunctious Democratic Congress, and those guys are preparing to paw over that contract from hell to breakfast, make every political advantage of it and torment your next two years in the White House. Although many of the things [the Democrats] said about Dixon-Yates were untrue, enough was true to give the deal an unpleasant odor the public does...