Word: sort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alan Steinert, campaign manager for the CCA, called the flyer "A routine illegality of the sort one would expect from the opposition. A last minute desperate try, ridiculous on its face and not worth a reply...
...nation's second largest state, he has played a moderate, mediocre role, with the paradoxical support of organized labor and the L.A. Times --which doesn't hire union members. He blamed smog on incinerators instead of industry, and opposed a "right-to-work" law. He is a pleasant sort of a man, with a likeable grin...
...office has denied that any pressure has been exerted to force him to switch his candidacy to the Senate. But Knowland, a sort of Slenderella bulldog with a look of petrified integrity, wants to be governor, because it is one step closer to the White House in 1960. Knowland is a humorless man with a mission and a method, and the backing of party professionals in the Golden State...
Henry Fonda is an aging ex-sheriff, disillusioned with the lawman's life. Tony Perkins is a nice young Sunday-go-to-meetin' sort of feller who has just been chosen sheriff, and who discovers to his horror that there is more to the job than wearing a tin star. The story develops as the oldtimer, much against his will, is drawn by sympathy into an attempt to teach the young comer how to be a proper lawman-before he becomes a dead...
...Vogue. T.T., a sort of Bolshevik Babbitt with a strain of a Good Soldier Schweik of the Class War, is the central figure in a series of events which would seem like fantasy were not each episode matched by a solemn quotation from Soviet pronouncements. By Soviet standards, T.T. is highly fortunate-he has a television set, a Pobeda automobile, a plump stomach and a talented teen-age daughter named Simochka. Yet there comes the dreadful day when it is reported from Simochka's university that she has been overheard making anti-party statements. This is serious business-only...