Word: runge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of one year in the life of a family of Texas cotton farmers: a sad, querulous, disintegrating old woman (Beulah Bondi), a young man (Zachary Scott), his wife (Betty Field) and their small children. This is the strenuous, upward year after they have climbed the rung from migratory labor to tenant farming. They are not, like the people in The Grapes of Wrath, caught in historical currents greater and crueler than they can fathom or successfully fight; mainly they are involved in a contest with the land and the seasons...
...attack narrowed down to the main objective: poverty-stricken, malaria-ridden, snake-infested Okinawa, largest and staunchest rung in the Ryukyu ladder. Once firmly established on Okinawa, Americans could climb up the 370 miles to Kyushu, Japan's southernmost main island, or climb down 365 miles to Formosa, potential springboard for landings in China...
...consistently out-slicked them, mauled them, beaten them. The Germans had always put more men and guns opposite Patton's outfits. Now there were fewer German men and guns. One reason: Patton's Third and Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army had rung up one of the big victories of the war in the Saar-Palatinate cleanup, had removed more than 150,000 Germans who might now be blocking Patton's path...
...national campaign to "comfort the troops," great sums of money were collected. Little was donated direct to the Government for disbursement by slow-moving bureaucrats. But millions of Chinese dollars (on current approved rate, each worth a U.S. nickel) were sent every day to the independent newspaper, Ta Rung Pao, with such covering letters as: "I am giving the money to our soldiers through you, because I know that through you the soldiers will...
...Bell for Adano (adapted by Paul Osborn from John Kersey's novel; produced by Leland Hayward) keeps its tone but not its resonance when rung in the theater. Although Playwright Osborn has been resourceful in retelling the John Hersey story and scrupulous about preserving its spirit, the result is a nice play rather than a notable one. The picture it presents is not quite dramatic enough, the presentation a little on the bumpy side...