Word: richest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kindly groom (Edmund Gwenn) takes him home to a rich man's stables, and thereafter, in due process of fate, the wharf rat whips his haughty old man at the big dog show, redeems his poor old mother from poverty and disgrace, and finds romance with the richest female in town. A dog's life? Maybe not, but it's a thoroughly entertaining one, and moviegoers of whatever age will not be inclined to look such a good-natured gift dog in the mouth...
...plant the seeds," a local saying goes, "and jump out of the way"). Within 50 years the valleys have been changed from sun-cracked desert (summer temperatures range from 100° F. to 120° F.) into one of the biggest irrigated regions on earth, and one of the richest. In this improbable winter garden last week, warming up for a congressional race, were two improbable political candidates: a platinum blonde who fought her way from hideous poverty to fame and riches, and a county judge with blue-black hair and coffee-colored skin who was born in Amritsar, India...
...wake of Khrushchev and Bulganin, another spectacular but distinctly different visitor made his triumphal way across India last week. He was moose-tall (6 ft. 6 in.) King Saud of Arabia, 53, ruler over Islam's holiest places and the world's richest oil lands. His party of 234, including nine royal princes and a dozen sheiks, was seven times as large as that which accompanied Bulganin and Khrushchev. When some of India's 40 million Moslems tried to garland the King's head with flowers, strapping bodyguards, slung with pistols, gold-hilted scimitars and jeweled...
...rough division of labor, South Africa's 1,100,000 whites of British descent run the country's commerce and industry (including the richest gold and diamond mines on earth), and leave its politics to the dominion's 1,500,000 largely rural Afrikaners. A consequence of this uneasy arrangement is that the most immoderate government in the British Commonwealth is fast driving the country toward race trouble and out of the empire...
...last, and perhaps the richest opportunity offered by the retelling of history is that of exploring and trying to uncover the characters of persons whose names have been only that. Here too, Prokosch has fallen far short of what might have been done. We see his figures and hear them, but on the few occasions we are allowed into any of their minds it is only to see briefly what runs on the surface of their thought...