Word: pecked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Review put Sunset Boulevard first, voted Gloria Swanson, in her sensational screen comeback, the year's best actress. The New York Film Critics put All About Eve first, singled out Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz as best director and Star Bette Davis as best actress. By citing Gregory Peck as best actor (for his playing in Twelve O'Clock High), they gave an unprecedented clean sweep to one studio: Darryl F. Zanuck's 20th Century...
...Despite all our love for birds, this calls for countermeasures. The German Democratic Republic has therefore issued a police ordinance by which two to ten sparrows are to be destroyed on every hectare of land." In answer, the West Berlin Kurier told its readers: "If a tattered sparrow should peck at your window, let him in. He's a political refugee...
...Hildegarde Day," and stores were closed and schools let out; between halves of the Bloomfield-Milan (Mo.) football game the Bloomfield band formed an "H" on the field. In Grand Forks, N.Dak., where she arrived in the midst of the potato-digging season, she was honored with a peck of spuds...
...week's end, heavily guarded, Harry Truman flew west. He landed at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., gave Miss Mary Jane Truman a brotherly peck on the cheek. His Secret Service men flanked him on his 25-mile ride to St. Louis with their hands near their revolvers...
...clergymen-Dr. Howard W. Ferrin, president of the fundamentalist Providence (R.I.) Bible Institute, and Brother Bartholomew, representing the Order of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, in Woonsocket-were bidding for Edgewood Junior College on the palatial Frederick Peck estate in Barrington, R.I. That morning Dr. Ferrin had offered $250,000; Brother Bartholomew had topped it with $300,000. The judge had ordered that sealed bids be presented that afternoon. They were, and an astonished clerk read them out: for the Brothers, $331,000; for the institute...