Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turner was a pressagent's dream ready-made for stardom by Hollywood standards. Her father was killed in a gambling scrape when she was ten; her mother struggled to keep her alive. In Hollywood one day, when she was a well-stacked 16, she was "discovered" as she sat at a drugstore fountain. Hollywood gave her the big buildup. Renamed Lana, she made movies with the biggest of the box-office giants-Gable, Taylor, Cooper-and nobody, least of all the customers, cared if she was not a second Sarah Bernhardt...
With a sense of pride and no little awe at the crunching majority they had voted Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservative Party in the national elections fortnight ago (TIME, April 14), Canadians sat back last week to see what Diefenbaker would do with...
...without being particularly noticed. After dinner he shyly accepted the club's award as the Best Film Actor of 1957, and then a Columbia executive produced the Oscar. Applause. Alec fidgeted, looked bashfully pleased, mumbled a few words about the "many people in show business who helped me," sat down...
...informed him casually that he had really wanted Charles Laughton for the part. Alec brooded, and a couple of days later tried to quit. Lean talked him out of it. "Lean!" snarls one of the crew. "That bloody perfectionist! He shot 30 seconds of film a day and then sat on a rock and stared at his goddam bridge.'' Alec tried to quit again. Lean talked him out of it. For 3½ months the cast and crew sweated it out on jungle location. Poker and 16-mm. movies were the only relaxations. Bickering was incessant. Alec avoided...
...against Republican "dinosaurs of political thought" while his suit became swampy with perspiration and his voice faded away to sandpaper hoarseness; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. Sometimes known as the man of "girth and grins," the roly-politician was one of the canniest who ever sat on Beacon Hill, built up a formidable personal machine that almost withstood the Eisenhower landslide of 1952, when Republican Christian Herter won the Massachusetts governorship...