Word: plate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three jittery ex-marines, the humdrum postwar world looks pretty hopeless. Dorothy McGuire cannot put aside the dead romantic daydreams that crashed over Europe with her flyer husband. Ex-Pugilist Bill Williams bitterly resents his new artificial legs. Robert Mitchum takes to drink, hoping to forget the painful silver plate in his head. Guy Madison, home from the Pacific with a whole skin, is too restless to stomach the unexciting routine of a civilian...
Civilization. In 1521, Magellan discovered the Philippines for Spain and the white man-and died there in a political gang fight on tiny Mactan. Spanish customs, as well as Spanish laws, were clamped on the bewildered tribesmen like plate mail. With civilization had come the teaching missionary priest, the gold, pearl and hemp trade, running wars between the Dutch and Spanish, the British and Spanish, and the inexorable organization and pacification of the innocent bystanders. By 1892, when the brilliant and visionary mestizo, Dr. José Rizal, began his ideological revolt against the friars and tottering Spain, Spain had given...
Though Moravek blew hot and cold on the hill all afternoon, he was anything but erratic at the plate. His triple and single were probably the two hardest hit balls all day. Bill Harford's two hits, one of which drove in runs, partially atoned for his failure with the stick at New Haven. HARVARD ab r h po a e Sullivan, 3b 3 1 0 2 1 1 Hubbell, rf 3 2 1 3 0 0 Senseney, 2b 4 0 1 1 3 0 Fiorentino, 1b 4 1 1 5 1 0 Harford...
...habits of fire and pure, sterile earth; for this it lives crammed together in slippery streets where the housewife must change white window curtains at least once a fortnight . . . / For this it exists-that you may drink tea out of a teacup and toy with a chop on a plate. . . . It is England in little, lost in the midst of England. . . . -Arnold Bennett...
...Navy fliers just back in L.A. from the South Pacific. One of them, played by Hugh Beaumont, is the straight man; there's nothing wrong with him. William Bendix, who has never turned in a bum performance, does a beautiful job as the ex-gunner who has a steel plate in his head and isn't taking any lip from anyone. The big boy is Johnny, played by Alan Ladd. His wife hadn't bothered to send him a "Dear John" letter, so he doesn't know that she's been playing around with a night club operator...