Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...achieved a draw when rain halted play. But weather notwithstanding, Britons began to see England as the Aussies' equal for the first time in 20 years. For one thing, Australia is now without its famed batsman, the retired Sir Don Bradman. And against Australia's great Bowler Ray Lindwall, who can take his 20-yd. running start and fling the ball at close to 90 m.p.h.. England could pit some formidable batsmen of its own. Among them: Captain Len Hutton, who holds the record for runs scored in a test match (364), and Denis Compton, who seems...
Benjamin Harrison was in the White House; in Paris, Professor Louis Pasteur was working out his theories on bacteria; and in Würzburg, Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen was on the threshold of discovering the X ray, with scarcely a glimmering of the wonderful and terrible world of radioactivity that lay beyond. At Washington's Smithsonian Institution, itself only 46 years old, a 23-year-old instrument maker named Andrew Kramer applied for a job. Secretary Samuel P. Langley hired him on trial, that October day in 1892, to equip his astrophysical observatory. Last week...
...Well, cars full of sincere-looking extras-Scotland Yard men, who resent McCrea's interference-roar in pursuit, and platoons of snaky-looking loungers, the agents of "a foreign power," lie in wait. Alfred Hitchcock might have zipped his man through them all as niftily as a gamma ray through a cream puff, but Hero McCrea has no such luck. The Yard men catch him, the loungers snatch his spy. The poor colonel is lucky to get a kiss from his wife...
...Again (Columbia) has been done before. In 1937 it was a comedy hit called The Awful Truth. The current remake casts Jane Wyman, Ray Milland and Aldo Ray in the roles originated by Irene Dunne, Gary Grant and Ralph Bellamy. It also adds Technicolor and several songs and dances. Unhappily, it subtracts much of the romping good fun of the original, perhaps because the cast is not quite as proficient, and because Director Leo McCarey is no longer wielding the slapstick...
...Came from Outer Space (Universal-International) is one of those modestly budgeted, neatly tooled little thrillers that Hollywood turns out without fanfare from time to time. Based on a story by Ray Bradbury, it is a crisp combination of shocker and sociological comment. It tells of a Martian space ship that lands in the Arizona desert and of the chaos the visitors from outer space cause before they depart...