Word: river
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...determined woman in Falls Church, Va. kept her furnace going by burning all her firewood, then the extension leaves from her dining-room and kitchen tables then her cat's wooden house. Police guarding the Hudson River's George Washington Bridge turned back convertibles, fear ful that jagged chunks of ice, torn by wind from the girders and cables far overhead, might crash through the fabric roofs...
Earlier in the week, government landing parties had seized control of islands dotting the mouth of the Siak River, and captured the oil terminus of Dumai. On Bengkalis Island a rebel platoon watched interestedly as an army transport steamed leisurely up to the dock like an excursion steamer, tied up, and disgorged a file of government troops who sauntered down the gangplank like tourists. The rebel platoon leader surrendered and everyone sat down...
Cinemenace Hayakawa, who is up for a supporting-role Oscar for his work in Bridge on the River Kwai, performed eloquently in silence, let his craggy face show the nuances in the change from fear and hatred to humor and affection. Sea worked unnecessarily hard to make its point-misunderstanding breeds wars-because its airman, though well-played and fairly believable, was a simple-minded drugstore cowboy whose military indoctrination never seemed to have progressed beyond peeling potatoes...
...Pawnee scouts recruited by the U.S. Army in the autumn of 1876 to help avenge the death of General George A. Custer; in Pawnee, Okla. The expeditions assisted by the Pawnees were moderately successful, but never got the best of the Sioux victors of the Little Bighorn River: Chief Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull...
...Bridge on the River Kwai. Director David Lean's magnificently ironic adventure story, developed into a tragic exploration of the unmeaning of life; with Alec Guinness, William Holden (TIME...