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Although the pitching department was weak, it was not powerless. Vince Moravec, Samborski's mound-standby for the season, turned in a respectable record despite his high earned run average and his generosity with walks by chalking to a record of three wins while losing...
...sees no possible way out for the peacemakers. "With human stupidity," he said, "even Almighty God is powerless...
Like "Double Indemnity" (also based on a Cain yarn), "Postman" involves the extra-curricular love affair of a married woman, the murder of the husband by wife and lover, and the net of justice that ensnares them. But where Barbara Stanwyck clearly was a woman powerless in the grip of passion, Lana Turner plays a peculiarly ill-defined character, driven in conflicting directions by muddled motives. Nor is Garfield, while more suitably cast, given a better organized role. The smaller parts are much neater; Cecil Kellaway as the husband and Hume Cronyn, as a lawyer who gets Miss Turner...
...Dickens could not shake off the specter of death, though he fought it to the very brink of the grave. He insisted on a secret burial without mourning clothes-"No scarf, cloak, black bow, long hatband or any other revolting absurdity." But he was powerless to stem the flood of mourners who thronged Westminster Abbey to view his open grave...
When soldiers discovered what every good agitator knows-that by mob methods they could stir up a quick reaction from the U.S. public and its Congress-they began to act like a mob. Generals as well as politicians were powerless against this behavior. With G.I. demands ringing in his ears, General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower issued a strategic retreat order to theater commanders: return to the U.S. any men "for whom there is no military need...