Word: sort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town's three-man police force. Cockrell stopped the hot-rodders all right. He wrote as many as 80 traffic tickets in one day, used his ever-handy blackjack on some fresh guys who talked back. Indeed, some Boydsmen claimed Cockrell had clubbed them without any sort of cause. Perhaps, so:ne townspeople began to think, the hot-rodders had not been so bad after...
...what from him-or any other Russian-was a surprisingly conciliatory note. Russia, he insisted, was less interested in getting her own resolution passed than in finding "a mutually acceptable formula." Said he: "Even today, if you please-I repeat, even today-we are prepared to enter into any sort of consultations with any delegations, including those of the U.S. and the United Kingdom." (He did not say that U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had sought Gromyko out for a private chat the night before...
...medals by her side, they were stripped of their right ever to receive the medals, and the elder Zybina was barred from the trip to Stockholm (TIME, Aug. 18). Also barred was Nina Ponoma-reva, the hefty discus thrower who was caught shoplifting in London two years ago. A sort of Maria Callas in a track suit, Nina had made her outbursts of temperament famous. She was accused of being "egotistical and uncomradely." All this was part of a stern new government campaign to eradicate a disease called "The Stardom Sickness...
...Buddhist U Chan Htoon, Justice of the Supreme Court of Burma, contributed speeches of great good will. But it was Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof of Pittsburgh's Rodef Shalom Temple (Reform) who came close to denning much that is wrong with religious liberalism. Said he: There is a "sort of spiritual restlessness, a hunger" in the hearts of modern men, and it is expressed, among other things, by the bestsellers. The type of religion found in popular books about religion, said Rabbi
...burrow where he and his deserted mother (Cara Williams) live. The woman helps them smash the chain, spends the night with Joker Jackson, and persuades him to flee with her while Cullen heads overland to hop a northbound freight. In a scene that would be the worst sort of corn if the script faltered, Curtis learns that the woman has directed Poitier through a quicksand bog. Their painfully borne chain, even broken, has bound them irrevocably together, and Curtis plunges after him to sure capture by the law. Behind the coupled heroes, the moviemakers have sketched a mud-grimed tableau...