Word: sharked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble, he insisted, is in the design of automobiles, and he showed horror pictures to prove it, with front-seat passengers most often the victims. Automakers, he said, should pad the dashboard and get rid of the face-smashing projections which now make it as deadly as a shark's-tooth club...
...pains she is pursued by a shark in the service of the Russians (James Mason) who gives her a chase that is all the more stimulating because she never knows whether he is after her neck or just after her pretty face. In due course, the shark proves human and takes the bait Ingenue Bloom only too happily offers. The Russians rush off after them both on just the kind of joyride that Reed likes best to give his camera-the chase through a great city by night. Bloom and Mason hole up at last in a dingy East zone...
...Army's late great armor tactician, General George S. Patton Jr.; of injuries suffered in a fall from her horse; in South Hamilton. Mass. Like her husband, Beatrice Patton was an outspoken believer in the strenuous life. She wrote a historical novel (Blood of the Shark), composed band music for her husband's tank units, helped prepare his pep talks to his troops. After Patton's death in 1945, she campaigned for universal military training ("It makes Americans out of all sorts of odds and ends...
...North and South postponed a showdown on the "loyalty pledge" issue raised at 1952's national convention, and appointed a committee to study the problem. Grinned Missouri's Senator Thomas C. Hennings Jr., on leaving a peaceful Rules Committee meeting: "We are all against the man-eating shark." Adlai Stevenson, with his gift for the precise phrase, described the party's spirit as "creeping harmony...
Humor was much, but what was the most help to the men of the Perth was the sense of tradition and group solidarity. The Survivors is thick with recollections of men in shark-infested waters who supported men they had never known, or gave their places on rafts to the wounded, or kept their mates awake and alive by jabbing planks in their faces. Morale of this sort held out for several days, until all the men McKie writes about had managed to get ashore on Java...