Word: ret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story tells of a day in the life of Major Cornelius Melody (Ret.), the son of an Irish inn-keeper who once fought bravely under Wellington at the Battle of Talavera. When Melody emigrated, he brought with him the myth that he had formerly been a land-holding aristocrat, now reduced by circumstance to keeping a tavern in America...
...SHOT IN THE DARK. Sellers of the Süreté sets a new style in sleuthing: let the murderer get away, but try to make the audience die laughing...
...SHOT IN THE DARK. Peter Sellers, as Inspector Clouseau of the Sũreté, rarely gets his man but continually gets laughs while pursuing a seductive murder suspect (Elke Sommer) from corpse to corpse...
...SHOT IN THE DARK. Peter Sellers, as Inspector Clouseau of the Sûreté, rarely gets his man but continually gets laughs while pursuing a seductive murder suspect (Elke Sommer) from corpse to corpse...
...home and small-scale insurrection abroad. Behind all these devices is the concept of "necessary minimum force," which means no more power than is necessary to disperse rioters without killing them or inflicting wounds that will arouse sympathy. Some samples, as described by Lieut. Colonel Rex Applegate, U.S.A. (ret.), in the military magazine Ordnance...