Word: pour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rambling fashion Clair's plot tells of two prison buddies who want to escape their dull routine "pour la liberte." One of them succeeds and soon becomes president of a phonograph factory. The other, an incorrigible remanticist, is captured. After his subsequent release, he takes a job on the assembly line in his materialist friend's plant. The two discover each other, the police discover the materialist, and they start all over again...
...drenched porch outside his room at Denver's Fitzsimons Hospital. His diet became more varied.* He started two paintings. He got back to a part-time, Monday-Wednesday-Friday work week. And once more a stream of officials and friends, dammed up for three weeks, began to pour into Denver and up to the President's bedside...
...Another thing, Chuck, if the plane is burned that means it was my last chance-not that it makes any difference. I don't know how you would get it out anyway. Also, Chuck, will you see to it that they pour a glass of water on me good and cold...
...companies (four) and the foreign productions (six), Oklahoma! was seen by more than 10 million and made more than $30 million. But that, as Rodgers & Hammerstein were well aware, was only the beginning. If Oklahoma! could make $30 million from 10 million theatergoers, what Mississippis of money might not pour back from the 13,520,000,000 movie admissions that are paid every year...
...held its first meeting of the year, the chairman congratulated Jaeger on the two high honors he had won over the summer and asked him to explain just what the awards were. Reluctantly, the Professor reported that, along with Thomas Mann, he had been named to the German order Pour le Merite, which consists of the thirty foremost living German scholars in all fields of science and the arts. Jaeger also admitted that he had received a prize from the Academia Nazionale dei Lincei, Italy's most prominent learned society. The prize, he remarked with a deprecatory laugh, amounted...