Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shuffling of characters on and off stage reveals his unsure stage craftsmanship, as do some of his strongest assets: some of his pungent, well-wrought lines, which sounded excellent from a nearly excessively bright novelist, can sound overpolished in the mouths of characters on stage, especially such a character as a housemaid...
...been at any time before. Significant collections of modern art are numerous and continue to expand even at this period of five and six digit prices. Art has become popular and even if diamonds are still a girl's best friend, Picasso turns out to be just as sound an investment...
...choice of Mickey Mantle as MVP is a sound one, and the cry of prejudice against Williams should ring hollow. Because Ted Williams spits at fans and because he is impolite to sportswriters are not the reasons why he was bypassed as the Most Valuable Player in the American League. Even if the writers who rated Williams ninth and tenth had placed him first and second, the Splinter's revised point total still would have lagged behind Mantle...
Aramburu clapped on his bubble helmet and oxygen mask, and the plane climbed quickly to 26,000 feet. Somewhere around 700 m.p.h. the jet banged through the sound barrier, soon hit 800 m.p.h. Twenty-five minutes after takeoff, the President was back on the ground. How did he like it? "Fantastic," said Aramburu. "There's something about it you cannot explain." According to Air Force officials, Aramburu was the first chief of state ever to break the sound barrier...
...Hollywood-type talent search for "the typical Navyman," whom he personally selects, sight unseen, because he likes the fellow's name: Farragut Jones. It represents the finest in Navy tradition, but from the first word uttered by Boatswain's Mate Jones (Mickey Shaughnessy)-a short, unpleasant sound that is blotted from the sound track by a stentorian beep-it is apparent that he represents one of the worst mistakes a recruiting officer ever made. Lieut. Siegel (Glenn Ford), Marblehead's chief whipping boy, is assigned to rectify the error, and manages to teach the brute...