Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tideland oil fight currently raging in the Capitol has become a gigantic political card game. The deck includes the biggest lobbies in Congressional history, divergent social philosophies, charges of thievery and corruption, and numerous side issues. the stakes are oil, currently the nation's most important natural resource. Peacetime use of oil has steadily increased, creating an unexpected and unfilled post-war demand, and its wartime value has made the possession of large oil reserves a modern prerequisite of modern warfare...
Gordon Weir placed second in the diving followed by teammate Win Briggs. This was the first time that Weir had outpointed his compatriot in the three meets since Tom Drohan left the squad. Briggs had previously been rated somewhat over Weir by pool-side observers, namely the judges...
Since Ladd is a company policeman in the days when roadbeds were rough and railroading rougher, Preston winds up on the villains' or losing side. There are some handsomely photographed train wrecks, but except for Frank Faylen's lynx-eyed portrait of a killer, Whispering Smith is a conventional western in every detail. Its only novelty: Actor Ladd, familiar as a sleekly tough urban type, carrying two guns and looking pretty uncomfortable as they flap around his chaps...
...tell women I admire and love them when I feel neither one nor the other." Perhaps he remembered the letter he had written to a Creole courtesan, a friend of his great-uncle: "I should far rather make a slip with you than be on the right side even with the whole Academy-and [Anatole] France would, too. Indeed, it would be delightful to make a slip with you." His passion for the Creole never went beyond an "amour...
Parallel with the satire in The Price Is Right, Weidman tries something bigger; he appears to offer Henry Cade as a sort of modern Macbeth, a surrogate for all men gnawed by too much ambition. But Weidman's Macbeth remains strictly from Madison Avenue, and one side of the street at that...