Word: reel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time hero & heroine begin to wriggle out of the underworld's clutches, the unwinding plot is too glib and fast to follow. So are the sociological overtones of the young couple's last-reel decision to starve in an artist's garret rather than gorge in a butler's pantry...
...sake of his party of friends, he had put up with something for which he had little enthusiasm-fishing. He caught a few bonitos, red hind and barberfish (red with blue dots), but he made his political advisers wince by frankly saying that he was no devotee of rod & reel...
...Walter Brennan. The plot works hard to prove that the course of true love rarely runs smooth. No up-to-date writer of movie fan mail will be greatly surprised to learn that Cornel Wilde (his studio's male champion receiver of fan letters) gets a last-reel embrace from Jeanne Grain (fan mail runner-up to her studio's female champion Betty Grable...
Across the Kansas plain great puffs of whitish dust erupted into the shimmering heat. Inside these clouds the ponderous combines roared and clanked, their reel slats flashing as they flailed through the knee-high wheat. In the No. 1 wheat state of the world's greatest wheat-producing nation, it was harvest time...
...year-old tractor that pulls the bigger combine. Frank Anderson cranked the combine's engine and the morning's vast silence was filled with chugging and the swish of churning slats. Frank stood atop the combine, guiding the pitch and height of its 16-foot reel as it chewed at the stalks. Now there were other sounds: the roar of Jack Anderson's tractor as he swung the smaller combine in behind his father's, and the low, steady purr of kernels pouring into the combines' bins...