Word: q
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economy was in bad shape, and Daha's chaotic Sri Lanka Freedom Party was so badly split that the regime survived one no-confidence motion by only one vote. Last week, after 70 days in office, Daha decided it was time to quit, with a capital Q. Dissolving Parliament, Governor General Sir Oliver Goonetilleke called for new elections March 19. In the meantime, Dahanayake will head an interim government...
...Q. Can you give me a direct answer? Did this high public official offer a bribe...
...Q. Then you lied twice: once in telling it to Fred Cook, and having it repeated on last night's program...
Sellers qua Tully Bascomb leads an expeditionary force of twenty men clad in mail and armed with crossbows, to New York, where they are to surrender. They arrive on the day of a mass air raid drill, and by chance reach a laboratory where the prototype of the devastating Q bomb has just been completed...
Late in the film the directors flash a Q-bomb explosion on the screen and then announce, "this is not really the end of our picture." A film like The Mouse That Roars is encouraging, for without this ability to laugh at our insane weaponry, such a finale might be worth contemplating...