Word: pose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Karsh's good friend, Prime Minister Mackenzie King, persuaded reluctant Winston Churchill to pose for the "local photographer" in the Speaker's Library at the House of Commons. Churchill grumpily lit a cigar and growled that he would give "two minutes for one shot." With a quick movement Karsh plucked the cigar out of the Prime Minister's mouth. As Churchill glared balefully at this impudence, Karsh clicked his shutter. The picture was published (in LIFE), and Karsh's reputation was made...
...notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. ... In desperate need for God, he will induce modern man in his loneliness and frustration to hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give man enlargement of pur pose, without any need of personal amend ment and without admission of personal guilt...
...unemployed veteran, convinced that he was a natural-born advertising copywriter and unable to get a job in Chicago's ad agencies, addressed his message to 60 of their top executives via a miniature six-page replica of TIME, with himself on the cover. He didn't pose as Man of the Year, but he did get 17 replies and, within a week, the job he wanted...
Although the Varsity has won four of its first five games, there is still not much indication that the Barclay team can pose a tremendous threat to its Ivy League colleagues especially Dartmouth, Penn and Cornell, all of whom are reputedly loaded. The experience gained in the west can be of substantial help to the squad in its post-vacation engagements with league opposition...
...interesting and smoothly flowing story. Ably supported by Akim Tamiroff, handsome George Sanders filches ladies' garters and coffers of jewels between kisses to become one of the first men in history to put love on a paying basis. Beginning with their escape from prison when they are enlisted to pose for a fresco of St. George and the Dragon, the Mutt and Jeff team adroitly carries the plot through the various sequences to its culmination in an cerie death struggle over money...