Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...posse also includes the usual comic dog handler, in a movie that needs no comic relief. Yet the basic structure is still sound, despite one of the least likely romantic interludes on the modern screen...
...violating two elementary rules of play, he made the only lead that, as the cards lay, could possibly have defeated the contract. After taking the trick with dummy's queen, East led the five of spades, putting down his jack on the assumption that South, being apparently of sound mind, would never have led the nine away from K-9 of trump. Goren copped the trick with his lurking king, later brought home his king of diamonds to defeat the contract...
...queer sound in the night woke Mrs. Clarice Singer, and dread drove her to the room of Susan, 3. The child stood on tiptoe in the dark against a closet door, arms thrust stiffly overhead. Moments later she heaved a great sigh. Mrs. Singer screamed for her husband, but both knew that nothing could be done. Susan was dead...
...biggest package ever," United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther last week settled with Ford for far less. He got just about what Ford-and the other carmakers-offered back in April. Reuther joined with Ford Vice President and Chief Negotiator John Bugas to announce "a sound and equitable agreement ... a three-year contract .. . fair to the workers, the company and the American public...
...Rudyard Kipling. Among the birthday salutes this week is a book of personal tributes (T. S. Eliot: A Symposium for his Seventieth Birthday; Farrar. Straus & Cudahy; $5). Its contributors, alongside the usual literary figures, include English schoolboys and girls between the ages of 14 and 18. most of whom sound so solemn and professional as to suggest that England is raising a generation of literary critics. But there are also many signs that Eliot can still stir the young. A 15-year-old girl named Penelope Hodges pays the poet a compliment that may please Old Possum more than...