Word: pittinger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grapes, Gifts, Girls. Last year, when Captain Thornhill, then 73, thought to marry his cousin Cecily, it was Patience the butler who did the proposing and it was Patience who stood by as best man at the wedding. Over the years, in gratitude for such devotion, Thornhill showered his butler...
After six weeks' inquiry, an Indonesian investigating commission last week brought in its findings on the Air India Constellation which crashed, killing 16 persons, including eight Red Chinese on their way (after a stopover in Hong Kong) to the Bandung Conference (TIME, April 25). Verdict: sabotage. Having salvaged almost...
"Mortars started up again, but the Binh Xuyen fire was inaccurate. Nationalist reinforcements-a battalion of paratroops-moved expertly, strung out in single files along the boulevard, using the picturesque trees for cover. Scout cars zigzagged towards Binh Xuyen bunkers, slamming at them with 37-mm. cannon fire. Sirens howled...
The whole film is a tribute to Gandhi's principles of practical idealism: the satyagraha (soul force, or conquering through love), which was the basis of his resistance campaign against the British in his battle for India's liberation; his insistence on means being commensurate with ends; the...
Thompson kept adding to its products now makes 80, boasts that the only one it ever had to drop was the automobile crank. It has helped develop such things as aircraft valves containing liquid sodium inside as a coolant; an engine valve cap that turns slightly with each strike, thus...