Word: propsed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leaning heavily on the crutch of slapstick, Capra works hard to manufacture laughs out of such feeble stuff as the roistering antics of a drunken Irishman, the flowering of frustrated Alexis into hip-slinging whistle-bait, the arch effeminacy of the protocol expert at society weddings. He stages the film...
But the bulls' main argument is that the U.S., launched on unprecedented peacetime spending for armament, is in for a whole decade of inflation. Wages, warned Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson this week, can never go back to pre-Korea levels since the U.S. is "still an expanding economy...
But other good Wagnerites still felt cheated, longed for a few more props and a lot more light. Their complaint: they had to spend so much energy searching for characters in the gloom that they could hardly concentrate on the music at all.
To revive Bayreuth, Wagner's grandsons Wolfgang, 32, and Wieland, 34, collected about $400,000 from the Bavarian government, radio networks and festival devotees. They cleaned up the Festspielhaus, hired musicians, replaced costumes and sets destroyed by playfully masquerading American G.I.s quartered in the building at the end of...
The Red air force was showing more fight than it had for a long time. Swarms of the enemy's fast, agile MIG-158 rose to contest the air with U.S. F-86 Sabres. On some days, "props" (propeller-driven planes) from both sides joined in the dogfights. The...