Word: slug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...across the front, hours after the : truce agreement was signed, the big guns roared. U.N. artillerymen were under orders not to shoot unless shot at. The Reds, however, wanted to slug it out until the 10 p.m. bell. The Communists fired round after round at U.N. trenches; the Eighth Army guns fired back at the Red cannon. Said one marine wounded on the last day: "I guess those fellows on the other side didn't get the word...
...main movement, the picture has all the drive of a .45 slug, but the comic interludes are mostly misfires. Paulette Goddard is agreeably bummy as an affluent madam, and Porter Hall, as one of the witnesses (an undertaker on a spree), firmly supports many a shaky scene with his main comic device: an almost completely absent chin. Edward G. Robinson is as monotonous and entertaining as ever. An actor who has developed well-nigh infinite modulations of the sneer, Robinson, after 30 years of practice, has at last produced his masterpiece. In Vice Squad, he displays a sneer so spectacular...
Canadian political campaigns traditionally generate a gentlemanly head of steam toward election time, as the rival candidates slug it out for votes in the nation's populous heartland of Ontario and Quebec, where 160 of Parliament's 265 seats will be decided. Last week a Canadian Institute of Public Opinion poll reported that, of voters expressing a preference, 47% were pro-Liberal, 30% pro-Conservative. But the Liberals apparently have lost ground in Ontario, and some Tories, recalling last year's U.S. elections, professed to sense a "time-for-a-change" ground swell in their favor...
Allergists live in a topsy-turvy world where bread is often not the staff of life but an insidious poison, where milk can do the baby more harm than a slug of liquor, where innocent-looking eggs are the secret agents of rebellion, and where mother love can choke a child. Last week the American College of Allergists met in Chicago to hear the latest reports from topsy-turvydom...
...Have Quiet." The Brewerytowners were still restive, but "Enforcer" Matyasevic took care of that: during one argument, he shot a Brewerytowner in the leg to cool him off and then accommodatingly dug out the slug with a razor blade. After that, the gang got down to more serious work. Last week five of them drove to a taproom in a stolen sedan. "Blackie" Battles, the lad who had been shot by the enforcer, stood outside with a high-powered rifle. One waited in the car, and the rest walked inside holding .32-cal. pistols...