Word: ranges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corvette loaded with fruit and vegetables, steamed through the China Sea one velvet night last week, outward bound from Communist Shanghai to Communist Amoy. At-first light, a gunboat appeared on the port bow and ordered the Britisher to heave to. Not me, said Nigelock's captain, and rang for full steam ahead. His radio crackled an S O S to the British destroyer Cockade, on patrol in the Formosa strait...
...brass. It showed Audrey playing the princess part a little nervously, a little self-consciously. But Wyler had played a sly trick on the newcomer by ordering the British director who made her test to keep his cameras turning after the scene was over. When the word "cut" rang out, Audrey sat up in her royal bed, suddenly natural as a puppy, hugging her knees and grinning the delighted grin of a well-behaved child who has earned a cookie...
...office trooped a covey of hand-wringing moviemen to urge him to change his mind. While such potent Hollywood brass as Paramount's Barney Balaban, 20th Century-Fox's Spyros Skouras and Columbia's Jack Cohn were in mid-argument, the Secretary's phone rang. Humphrey answered it. Then he told the distinguished lobbyists that the President had just issued a memorandum of disapproval. He was killing the tax-relief bill by a pocket veto...
...morning during rehearsals, the telephone rang in her husband's bedroom. Shirley called out: "Why don't you answer it, Bill?" Alarmed at his silence, she hurried in and found him dead of a heart attack. Shirley stayed away from rehearsals for several days and then, in the best tradition of the stage, went back to work. When Tree opened, she stopped the show with a raffish number called Love Is the Reason, and was showered by the critics with a new set of rave reviews...
...going over the proofs of a cartoon for next day's paper. It showed the grasping hand of Soviet power being squeezed open by rebellious satellite citizens as they desperately tried to escape (title: "Losing His Grip?"). Just as he was finishing with the proof, the phone rang. On the line was a reporter from the rival Chicago Daily News. He told Burck that the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service had just ordered him deported on the grounds that he: 1) had become a Communist after entering the U.S. in 1914, 2) was in the U.S. illegally. Said Burck...