Word: recoiled
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King George chose to live as normally as possible. On the last day of his life he was out shooting hares. Although the King used special shells to reduce recoil, his weakened frame still had to take the repeated kick of a shotgun. There is no reason to believe that this hastened his death. During the night, as might have happened any other night in recent years, the blood slowed down in one of the King's hardened (and narrowed) coronary arteries. As it slowed, it thickened. Finally, it formed a large clot, and the King's life...
...gulping Scotch in an unguarded moment, she agrees to give up these peccadilloes, but only if he will forgo them too. She manages to squelch his romance with a French singer (Paula Corday), and when she turns his paternal good-night kiss into something more heated, she makes Johnson recoil with the stunned horror of a man discovering that, deep down, he is an all-too-willing fiend...
...suddenness of the offensive at least momentarily stunned the Communists. At the southwest end of the active front, the British Commonwealth Division, going into action as a combined unit for the first time, flanked by the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division and the Greek battalion, took up the Red recoil, achieved its objectives on the second day. The U.S. 3rd Division breached the Red line northwest of Chorwon. Fierce fighting developed at the northeast end, along the long line of rugged peaks of Heartbreak Ridge...
...Boyle Recoil. Political embarrassments trailed the President all week. He told his press conference that he was still looking into charges that Democratic National Chairman Bill Boyle took fees from a St. Louis firm just before it got a big RFC loan (TIME, Aug. 6). He had hurried to defend other cronies when someone said that they had been caught with their morals down. But he kept a glum, tight-lipped silence about Boyle...
...Duke of Bristol, it seems, is about to lose his ancestral home. His brother Gerard, played by Ralph Michael, invites the family to work on his farm, but they recoil from the idea in horror. Providence appears in the form of the American millionairess, played by Beatrice Pearson. After a great deal of to-do she and Gerard get together, as you might know they would. The play is short on action and long on talk, a great deal of which takes place inside a gloomy drawing-room set by Edward Gilbert. Most of the time the 14 characters just...