Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never quisled because Hitler never got around to invading their countries-earnestly try to bump Mitchum off their vile, traitorous scent. In all, Foreign Intrigue rates as the murkiest black-and-white color film of the year, lacking only a chase through sewers to lend it a more poignant aroma...
...landing team should be the nation's first force. Then, in 1947, came a brain hemorrhage from which he recovered enough to write, with a collaborator, Fleet Admiral King, a third-person account in which, with typical reticence, little of his inner self was revealed. Its most poignant sentence (in the introduction): "It was only by the unanticipated timing of fate that any use was made of my experience...
...under the apt direction of Robert Beckwith. The setting, moreover, was very appropriate: the antique statuary and columnwork of the Fogg Courtyard blended well with the archaic twang of the harpsichords, the delicate timbre of the lutes, and the Renaissance line of Monteverdi's melody--austere, exuberant, or poignant...
Black-Market Deals. Before the sentence was carried out, a shapely blonde show girl who signed herself Mrs. Edith Dahl wrote a poignant letter to General Francisco Franco, pleading for her husband's pardon and thoughtfully enclosed a fetching photograph of herself. Although it was later denied that Franco ever saw Edith's picture, a letter came back bearing the rebel leader's signature, with the courtly, old-fashioned Spanish salutation q.b.s.p. ("I kiss your feet"), and promising to spare Dahl's life...
Antimatter is a favorite subject with science fiction writers, who like to write about inhabited planets made entirely of it. A poignant moment comes when the beautiful anti-girl explodes like an H-bomb on kissing a man from Earth. These fantasies are built on the theory that isolated parts of the universe, such as distant galaxies, may be built of antimatter...