Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prove this point, Hollywood's Daily Variety listed a few examples of ad copy culled from the Los Angeles papers: Princess of the Nile (20th Century-Fox) : "No woman with a soul ever danced like Shalimar." About Mrs. Leslie (Paramount): "She gave more of herself in six weeks than most women give in a lifetime!" Hell Below Zero (Columbia): "You'll never forget the fight in Capetown . . . the kiss on deck . . . the rendezvous in the cabin." Said Variety: "It was contended by some that public intelligence had outgrown some of the [Production Code] bans-but more important, that...
...dark closets. At the sacred ponds of Kurukshetra and Sanyahet, near Delhi, waited 500,000 pilgrims who believed that during a solar eclipse all the sacred rivers of the world would flow into the two ponds, and that to bathe in them at that time would purge the soul of all sins. Since both the ponds were nearly dry, the Indian government had drilled six wells and pumped them brim full...
...tailored to Cooper's measure. As he mounted the platform he looked every inch the mountainman he is. His 14-minute speech was packed with platitudes ("I hope that in these times of trouble we can, like the ancient Greeks, draw upon the wisdom, the heart and soul, of those who went before us"), which the sophisticated Cooper could chuckle over later, still recognizing and reverently respecting their basic truth. Afterwards, Cooper drifted among the patches of family groups, diligently shaking hands. He ate a huge helping-fried chicken, cornbread sticks, deviled eggs, stringbeans and bacon, two kinds...
...spurs and a smoothly planned system of interchanges will also help overcome the vexing problems of entry and exit that have plagued other turnpikes (the late Ernie Pyle once wrote: "For what shall it profit a man if he gain two hours in 160 miles and then lose his soul getting into Pittsburgh...
...M.I.T. as chairman of the corporation. "It is as true today," he once told a graduating class, "as it was 2,000 years ago that the basic requirements for the good life are to 'love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind,' and 'to love thy neighbor as thyself.' " Last week, having lived that sort of life, Karl Compton, 66, died of a heart attack...