Word: raring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along the roads it was hard to tell that there had been fighting. Farmers tilled fields, animals grazed, peasants slept under trees. Only at rare intervals did we see a few dead bodies. Here & there was an overturned Hyderabad truck. At the village of Homnabad, the Indian army showed off its prize prisoner: he was a middle-aged clerk who had been secretary of the local Razakar organization-the band of Moslem diehards and guerrillas led by fanatic little Kasim Razvi (TIME, Aug. 30). A meek character in a grey Persian lamb fez and long coat, he looked just...
...rough & rowdy Washington Times-Herald, the fluttery, fastidious little man seemed as out of place as the publisher's high-strung poodles. Apple-cheeked Charles Bell Porter was no newsman but an esthete, a collector of rare stamps and Chinese porcelains, a Ph.D. in criminology from the university at Edinburgh, his native city. He liked to shut himself up in his office with a basket of fruit and play symphony records. But he also had a good head for figures, and that made him immensely valuable to Eleanor Medill Patterson. He was her treasurer and confidant...
...rare indeed that a movie can move in on the American frontier without million-dollar razzle-dazzle, chunks of pseudohistory, and an unctuous salute to those who secured our Way of Life. Rachel is content to examine a small domestic situation of no conceivable importance to citizenship classes, and to suggest the hard, lonesome beauty of the frontier and the way life was lived there. In other words, it is a better piece of history than most. There is pleasant work by Miss Young and Mr. Mitchum, and a skillful, comic, notably engaging performance by William Holden...
Into the heart of the Congo plunge four white men in search of legendary Mt. Nagala. All four men are searching for something: Samuel for a brilliant friend who once started for Nagala and was never heard from again; Marius, the mineralogist, for rare metals; Joshua, the entomologist, for rare insects; Alessandro, the anthropologist, for "secret gods...
...fairly new to the screen. The result is quite exciting. Continuous action builds a tension all its own. The players, too, are keyed unusually high by the intensity and interest of trying something new, so that, although their performances are elementary, they have a vividness and vitality which are rare in current movies...