Word: sort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Appraisal. Within the hour, word began to percolate around Washington that the U.S. was hardening fast upon a new appraisal of the Syrian situation: some sort of a forceful confrontation of world Communism in the Middle East would soon be necessary to stop Syria from slipping into satellite status and from subverting neighboring Jordan and Lebanon...
...will produce a wine to remember. Last week, as they prepared for this year's vintage festivals, a dark pall hung over the vintners. The reason: an intruder wine that everyone will remember for a long, long time. Without loving care, with only cheap grapes and a different sort of magic, one of their number had produced something that millions of Germans mistook for fine Liebfraumilch, Niersteiner Domthal and other famed wines of the area. In the process, he had mulcted his customers of from...
...into this were-world has slouched a new sort of creature: the cave-chested, pout-lipped, black-jacketed hero of such pictures as Rock All Night ("Some have to dance . . . some have to kill!"), Reform School Girl ("Boy-hungry wildcats gone mad!"). The teen-spleen movies, following the monster epic's formula of low-budget and low brain-wattage, are packing in the same audiences...
...first the book reads like a suspense tale of survival, told with a sort of totalitarian recall-minute details of rocks, water, limpets, seaweed are forced on the reader, until Lieut. Martin's every movement is seen as in a microscope of time. Swiftly, the novel makes clear that what matters is not Martin's survival but the kind of man who is or is not to survive. Also, Novelist Golding makes clear a subtle philosophical notion-that one can change the past by what one thinks about it. On civvy street Martin had been an actor (professionally...
Unfriendly Sort. In Vancouver, B.C., Rubber-Check Artist Kenneth Miller, 33, cheerfully greeted a man he thought he recognized, realized too late that his old crony was the police detective assigned...