Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same flashback, Walter Pidgeon careened down a street with horse & buggy This caused Tito to say hopefully, "Cowboys!" But we saw no more horses, and Tito slumped back, disappointed...
Salvatore Giuliano is probably the world's most eminent bandit, and certainly the most photogenic (see cut). In the rugged, wind-torn Montelepre zone that stretches behind Sicily's lush Palermo plain, Giuliano has carved out his realm. In six years, the police say, he and his band have killed more than 200 people, kidnaped scores of wealthy latifondisti (rich landowners) and made an estimated $2,000,000 in ransom. Time & again, the Italian government has sent entire companies of carabinieri to capture him. Each time the hills above Montelepre and the undernourished, goatskin-gaitered Montelepre peasants have...
When I have painted a fine picture, I haven't expressed a thought. Or so they say. What fools people...
...results were astonishing to both readers and editors. Every page was laid out in punchy, advertising style. Each issue bloomed with color printing. Weird symbols of internal organs caught the eye. Among the standing features: "Tumor Topics" and "Cancer Quiz." The Bulletin could say anything with enthusiasm. Inch-high type clarioned: "EVERY PERSON HAS A RECTUM . . . Any Doctor Can Examine It." An article on digital examination to detect cancer of the breast was briskly headed "Stop, Look and Feel," and decked with 17 drawings in color. The editors and artists even hit on a way to make a cover design...
...particular occupation or profession"-with the liberal arts secondary. One group who are inclined to reverse the order: college graduates themselves. But even with them, the liberal arts have no runaway; 44% of the grads prefer a liberal arts emphasis, 38% are for technical and professional emphasis, and 18% say "it depends" or have no opinion...