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...moments of passion or tenderness. This sort of thing is good for a yuk the first time, but after the third repetition even the fellers and gals of the John Hancock Life Insurance Company, which had bought out the orchestra the night I saw the play, began to react a bit slowly...
...platoon system and the female increment. Many people found it difficult to explain to their curious dates who all the people running around down on the field were. But then, on the other hand, there is the question of how these thrill seeking young girls will react to the lower scoring games which are almost certain to occur...
This is true, Miller said, because the social process of today, the industrial society, presents to man a force that is "no longer man, no longer human, but sheer power, imperative pure and simple and the individual cannot react to force as he does to an individual...
...their first sight of Mildred Didrikson Zaharias on the golf course, spectators often react like sideshow gawkers; they are first filled with awe, then with doubt, then with wonder. Obviously, they feel, no woman should be able to hit a golf ball so far (her longest drive: 315 yards...
...times, Vienna-born Preminger would turn to his cameraman with a sigh: "You must be firm with Germans. They are raised differently from us and react better if one is absolutely rigorous. Only patience will get us what we want." When the German cast moved off the set, Preminger called for his English-speaking actors-David Niven, William Holden, Maggie McNamara and Dawn Addams-and shot the same scene with less difficulty-and less patience-in English...