Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally, there should be some sort of vegetable. Chel Shar Din is a favorite of many. It consists of diced vegetables, such as celery, water chestnuts and bamboo shoot, mixed with bits of fried pork for flavor. Actually, though, any place of mixed greens will do admirably...
...direction," concluded Butler. "We can now look to a more hopeful way. We can lighten our load and liberate our energies." Encased to the last in his impenetrable Oxford-don manner, Rab Butler sat down. The Laborites sat in morose silence: he had left them few chinks to shoot at. Two or three Tories had brought along their silk toppers, the traditional thing to wave on jubilatory occasions, and now waved them with the fervor of shipwreck survivors signaling smoke on the horizon. Prime Minister Churchill, however, was not satisfied with the demonstration. His face working with emotion, he rose...
Baiting Aunty Molly was one of Stalin's pet pastimes during World War II. To General de Gaulle, who went to Moscow to negotiate a Franco-Soviet treaty, Stalin wisecracked: "You are a hard bargainer. You got the better of Molotov. I think we shall have to shoot him." Frenchman and Russian laughed until they noticed Molotov white with fear...
...honestly do a show of quality, then you are constantly frustrated. In three days we have to shoot an entire 26-minute show. And we do it just like the movies, with closeups, the whole works. But you know that isn't enough time. We start shooting promptly at 9 a.m. and never finish until 6. And still we don't have enough time. Some scenes that you see on the screen have never been rehearsed. I just read the script and they shoot...
...craze swept Hollywood, Variety reported last week that one producer claimed he was going to shoot his next picture in a process "much better even than 3-D." i.e., 4-D. "It means," the moviemaker explained, "that I'm using 3-D and I've got a story, too." The week's two new 3-D movies seemed to concentrate on stereoscopic effects rather than dramatic effectiveness...