Word: seene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is a very testing time ... I believe that the world is going through one of its vast secular revolutions ... a switchover in human affairs such as the world has not seen since Roman days . . . It is the duty of the Western democracies to ensure that this crisis . . . does not lead to the destruction of the civilization, the culture, and the standard of living which is our heritage...
Boomtown. Scurry's county seat, the once sleepy little cotton and cattle town of Snyder, had never seen anything like it, either. In the crowded lobby of its dingy Manhattan Hotel, the air hummed with talk of royalties, acreage, porosity. Leases changed hands so fast that new maps of the county had to be issued twice a month (at $15 each). In nine months, Snyder's population had shot up from 3,000 to 15,000. To handle the overflow of schoolchildren, the town bought an empty schoolhouse 175 miles away and hauled it to Snyder...
...told in choppy, dramatic incidents, which give the movie a curious pattern-Stark at the football stadium, Stark haranguing a fairgrounds crowd, Stark bulldozing the legislators, Stark posing for cameramen with his estranged family. The small, disconnected scenes hit the eye with the repetitive impact of telephone poles seen from a fast train, and din the main character deep into the mind...
Battleground. The defense of Bastogne as seen by a squad of its defenders; with Van Johnson (TIME...
Tufts was not a real test of this team's abilities. We have not seen yet whether it can come from behind to how it will play when not in the lead. Nevertheless, Shepard has won what he called the most important game on his schedule, and his men have shown sufficient evidence that they will be able to improve as the competition does...