Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, who expects a baby in October, convalesced from a near miscarriage (said Hubby Mike Todd: "I know she's getting better; she's starting to scream at me"), Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, only a few weeks pregnant, was rushed 106 miles from Long Island to a Manhattan hospital. There, while Husband Arthur Miller waited, doctors performed an hour-long operation to end a tubal pregnancy (in which the tiny ovum grows in the Fallopian tube instead of in the uterus). Said Miller afterward: Marilyn felt "as well as could be expected," still planned to have...
...quietly in flossy Grosse Pointe with his attractive ex-vocalist wife Barbara, their two children, three and five, and a 3,000-disk record collection. There, instead of Vite-A-Minnies, he tosses down a couple of hard drinks before bedtime, rarely goes out because, he says, "the kids scream at me. They always want me to carry on just like I was one of them...
...have jumped 17% over last year, against 9% for other workers. The Cleveland employment office reported it is getting 1,000 applications each month for skilled metal workers and is unable to fill them. Said F. E. James, Dallas director of the Texas Employment Commission: "Companies around here still scream at us for every available skilled man. But they are becoming more sensible now when we can't supply them, for most companies on their own have hunted the U.S. over and couldn't find the people they wanted...
...things-mysterious grownups, dresses, brothers, journeys, the near fall from virginity. The episodes, trivial in themselves, are good reading because they are by Mary McCarthy; they are also thought-provoking because they suggest something about reminiscing intellectuals in general. Those who fall out of a cradle do not merely scream; they see and live to tell. The Fear of the Fall-in the theological as well as the Freudian sense -is expressed in these tales by a seeing-eye child. In her precarious progress between generations and classes. Author McCarthy developed a sharp sense of reality undeceived by either...
...Negroes drank soda pop, danced to the music of a beat-up jukebox, chattered happily just because it was Saturday night. Suddenly the cheerful inside noises were smeared by the snarl of a car outside, a sputtering of shots ("like a string of firecrackers," said one witness) and a scream...