Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brisk raid into fresh Nixon territory last week, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller whirled through seven states in seven days. Purpose of the expedition to Indiana, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Texas and Florida: to test the political climate in the heartland before deciding early next month whether to make the race against Vice President Richard Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination. General finding: predictable coolness from the professionals, enough spontaneous warmth from amateurs and scattered Nixon dissidents to convince an energetic, personable Nelson Rockefeller that he might have a chance in the primaries if the voters could know...
...crumbling walls of its Angevin castle still keep guard over Lundy's only landing place, whence the medieval barons De Marisco once dispatched their men to raid the coast of England. It was from Lundy that the elegant 17th century pirate "Admiral" Nutt defied the Royal Navy; where the smuggler Mr. Thomas Benson, M.P., fired on all ships that did not dip their flags; and where a family called Heaven once ruled a kingdom of the same name. The islanders still point to the treacherous rocks that surround them and gleefully tell of the time a great galleon...
...July. The Draper Report--prepared by the President's Committee to Study United States Military Assistance Programs--said the American government should assist other countries, upon request, in establishing population control programs. The second report, issued by the Department of State, emphasized the political repercussions of over-population: "Raid populations growth may prove to be one of the greatest obstacles to economic and social progress and the maintenance of political stability in many of the less developed areas of the world...
Sellers qua Montjoy proposes war; Sellers qua Glorianna consents to it; and 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...
...strength of the film lies in its patchwork humor: rock 'n' roll in an air raid shelter, the Fenwickian girls waiting for the victorious American soldiers with signs, such as "Gum Chum," and Big Four ministers playing the board game "Diplomacy." What mars the film, apart from acting flaws, is chiefly an over-reliance on corn and gag lines, like Miss Seberg's "I always thought you were a snake, you snake." If the script is supposed to be satire on the usual Hollywood cliches, it does not come off as such, but sounds merely trite itself...