Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Direct Hit. In Seattle, James Hearn sustained a sore neck when he lost his balance, fell three floors down an air shaft, landed in an easy chair...
Under the Trees. Each obstacle underlined the necessity of success. One afternoon the delegates left their complexities on the tables, went over to the Muir Woods National Monument to dedicate a plaque to Franklin Roosevelt. As a shaft of sunlight struck through the interlaced redwood branches, Brazil's Leāo Velloso said hopefully that the Conference was building "on indestructible foundations, a civilization in which wars will be placed outside...
Last week Director Sapiro was lining up bandsmen for the biggest assignment of his career: the United Nations Conference. In his cubbyhole office (behind the City Hall elevator shaft) Phil Sapiro had carefully scored the anthems of each & every United Nation. The new Russian anthem he transcribed from a piano and vocal arrangement. "But I'll check with the delegations themselves before we play a note," he said. "You know, where you really run into trouble is with those Latin American countries. They keep changing anthems every time there is a revolution -but the band will be ready...
...formula to topical account. Its salient characters: an old-line general (Raymond Massey) trying to escape the consequences of plotting against Hitler's life; a diplomat (Henry Daniell) who is sorry he can't help him; a Goebbelsesque Gestapoman (George Coulouris) who gets thrown down an elevator shaft; an actress (Andrea King) who will help or betray anyone to keep herself safe; a handsome anti-fascist fugitive (Helmut Dantine) who gets help from her, and kills her when he can no longer trust her; a scientist (Peter Lorre) demoralized by Nazi torture; a stool pigeon (Faye Emerson...
...presume-gracious, but those bullet holes are disfiguring. And the little hemophiliac-Tsarevich Alexei! Ah, yes, I understand-doomed for a certain term to walk the night. . . . Why, I've scarcely given you a thought since that time when the Communists threw your bodies down the mine shaft in Ekaterinburg [now Sverdlovsk]. Whatever brings you here...