Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country is not determined wholly by the troops that it keeps. It is determined also by their economic, their spiritual, their intellectual strength, as well as their purely military." Britain, said he, in a mixed metaphor that fascinated the experts (see PRESS), "has had a really heroic row to hoe in trying to keep its economic nose above water." So the British are "trying ... to cut their cloth, you might say, according to what they had, and not to what they would like to have." Ike conceded that "their reduction has disturbed some of our NATO partners." But he added...
Britain had been living on Millionaires Row too long on a reduced income. Now it had moved into a smaller house and cut the staff. In the long run, Britain's new program could hardly be defended as making Britain bigger and better, but could be justified as being realistic...
...Bowery.* There, in the long shadow of the skyscraping spires of success, the faithful make perpetual libation to failure. Day and night the staggering crowds of petes and winos, toads and loners mill about in a hundred sticks and arms and muskie stands (as the bars on Skid Row are variously described), and keep the dismal watches of the dark night of the soul. A trite and cheaply sensational subject for a movie? This film-without the pity that secretly insults, without the disgust that indirectly compliments -studies its subjects with honest human interest, tries to see what they...
Captain Terry Turner moved up from the back row to an unaccustomed position, filling in for Huff...
...CBSpokesman, heard the original version and got "very, very mad." Just blown in from an African safari, Impresario Godfrey commented through a frozen smile: "My dear friend Paul better come to a little. He owes a great deal to people, just as I do." Meanwhile, Manhattan's Huckster Row was frothing at the mouth even more than usual over another Douglasism, same interview: "It's now the problem of the eleven-year-old mind on Madison Avenue trying to catch up with its own 13-year-old adult [audience...