Word: pecked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even with its fastest runner restricted, the U.S. found good reason last week to hope for a peck of gold medals at Melbourne in track and field events-the heart of the Olympics. Warming up for the Olympic tryouts, the nation's collegiate stars broke one U.S. and nine meet records (winner of the meet: U.C.L.A.) at Berkeley, while the nation's fastest and/or strongest servicemen in short pants broke one world and two American records in the interservice championships at Los Angeles. In all, athletes in the two meets beat Olympic marks in four events, tied...
...Boozer." In this dreadful city is set a dreadful boarding house, whose inmates, one by one, destroy Spinster Judith as barnyard fowls peck to death a sickly hen. Her latest and last landlady is Mrs. Henry Rice, with a "bad, blackhearted, slimy voice." The landlady's son, Bernie, is an atrocious intellectual engaged in writing a great poem. His mother washes his hair for him, while he dreams of himself as Messire Bernardus Riccio, a Machiavellian figure. The landlady's brother, James Patrick Madden, is back from New York and thought to be rich; although a vulgar sort...
...making errors. Always understanding, the machine holds back a difficult exercise until the pupil is ready. If set up to teach typing, it can tell the pupil which finger to use and in which direction to move it. If the pupil is a hardened hunt-and-peck typist, the teacher will discover his sloppy habits and set about correcting them at once...
Fortunately the characters spend little time making speeches. Gregory Peck as the man in the gray flannel suit, Jennifer Jones as his wife, and Fredric March as the tycoon all do a great deal for their roles. Peck's is the toughest part. He gives a more than adequate performance as a man who acts decisively and honestly out of a strong self-respect--which is what his boss most lacks--without being especially superficial. Jennifer Jones and Fredric March skillfully manage dramatic scenes which in other hands might invite disaster. With scarcely an exception, the minor characters--like...
...spite of its length and the slickness that sometimes makes it too neat, The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit is a good movie. It deals with Madison Avenue squarely and in its own terms; so that what the movie "says" has meaning for its subject. Once Gregory Peck is first shown on his commuter's train, the action devolops consistently out of itself, and the pleas for some kind of honesty or simplicity have a meaning for the people from whom they come...