Word: rams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sign of the Ram (Columbia), a fair-to-middling melodrama about a pathological cripple, stars attractive Susan Peters playing her first part since she was crippled in an accident three years ago. As a scheming, power-mad young stepmother, she has quite a fat role, and deftly conceals its lack of genuine sinew behind her intense acting...
...some reason, this convinced Mrs. Thomas that he was "not going to ram anti-segregation down our throats." She added: "The White House looked just like a beautiful home instead of a cold ole capital. I do feel that we're all right...
Careful Course. The committee bill steered a careful course between what Europe could accept and what the U.S. felt it needed as assurance that ERP would not be a running drain on the U.S. taxpayer. The bill did not attempt to ram conditions down Europe's throat. It simply expressed "the hope . . . that these countries through a joint organization will exert sustained common efforts which will speed the achievement of that economic cooperation which is essential for lasting peace and prosperity...
First they banned the Rashtriya Sway-am Sewak Sangh (Organization for Service to the Nation), militant Hindu youth organization of which Gandhi's assassin, Nathu Ram Vinayak Godse, was a member. Some 1,200 leaders and members were arrested for questioning. The secret R.S.S.S., which had mushroomed to a membership of about 2,000,000 since the communal riots began last year, drew most of its strength from the warlike Mahratta people of western India, who have always regarded the Moslems as invading interlopers...
Last week, Don Gavion was off for the antarctic on his most venturesome voyage yet. He got the idea when his antarctic expert and army chief, General Ramón Cañas Montalva, returned from the south. "The way to enforce our claims to the antarctic," he told the President, "is to take possession...