Word: shoutes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goodie Knight, who is not running for anything this year, rode in the open convertible with the President and waved to the bystanders. Kuchel rode in a closed car behind. Later, a little wistfully, Kuchel said: "I was terribly pleased today. Coming from the airport, I heard some people shout my name...
...Burgundy," say the French, "is to speak of wine." The bulk of Burgundy's wine flows to the tables of Lyon, Paris and the world from the high-yielding southern slopes of Beaujolais. But the best of Burgundy, the lordly, full-bodied, velvet reds that made Rabelais shout "How good of God to give us of this juice!", the wines that George Meredith called "the best that man can drink," come only from a 12,000-acre belt of tiny plots stretching in either direction from Nuits-St. Georges along the Golden Slope...
...that the walls of Jericho had indeed fallen with great violence. Reported Expedition Leader John Garstang: "The space between the two walls is filled with fragments and rubble. There are clear traces of a tremendous fire." Says the Bible: "When the priests blew with the trumpets . . . and the people shouted with a great shout ... the wall fell down flat ... and they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein." Scientists conclude that an earthquake may have tumbled the walls...
...dusty road before it or clambered on its fenders to cheer their chief. All along the hot, dusty, 140-mile drive to Serowe, the roads were lined with cheering, weeping Bamangwato, and the capital itself was thronged with tribesmen who had waited since dawn without food or water to shout their welcome. Even Seretse's own attempts to halt the cheering and speak a word of thanks were futile. "Seretse! Seretse! Seretse!" cried his former subjects, and the ex-chief could only smile back helplessly...
...only really irritating acting performance is that of Ann Hillary, who persists to shout wordlessly in a rasping voice throughout both plays. If Miss Hillary proves distracting, nothing else detracts from the general success of the play. The sets, while not exciting, are satisfactory. The costumes, especially on Miss Leighton, are more than adequate. But the most striking contributions are those of Eric Portman and Terence Rattigan...