Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political enemies in 1945, she successfully urged 50,000 howling workers from the slaughterhouse district into the streets and got his freedom in eight days. Four days later, a secret civil marriage sealed their conjugal-political union. After Perón was elected President, Juan and Eva began their spectacular man & wife dictatorship...
...chunks of rags and waste metal. A quick check of other planes brought a shocking disclosure: eight more Lancasters scheduled for flights that day had been similarly sabotaged. Canadian defense officials have a remarkable gift of complacency about things like this, but they admitted that this was "the most spectacular piece of sabotage in Canada since World War II." However, they gave out that it probably was only the spiteful work of a disgruntled flunky-and had nothing whatever to do with the world crisis...
Staged in authentic British locales by Director Richard Thorpe, Ivanhoe is at its best in its spectacular action sequences: Ivanhoe (Robert Taylor), resplendent in black armor on a black charger, splintering lances with five Norman knights in the lists at Ashby; Ivanhoe championing the persecuted Rebecca (Elizabeth Taylor) against Norman Templar de Bois-Guilbert (George Sanders) in a savage battle with hand ax and mace & chain to the neighing of horses and the funereal beating of drums; the flaming assault on Torquilstone castle, where Rowena (Joan Fontaine) is held captive by the sneering Sir Hugh de Bracy (Robert Douglas), with...
...toughest climbs of the Alps, the Rockies and the Himalayas are currently flocking to Peru, drawn by the country's cluster of virgin (i.e., unclimbed) peaks ranging up to 20,000 ft. or more. In recent months, two major expeditions have been preparing assaults on the spectacular snowcrest of Salcantay, 20,551 ft. above sea level. One, an American-French group, has been reconnoitering the peak in an airplane; the other, a Swedish-Italian group, has been warming up by scaling other Peruvian slopes...
...stuck on slight .(5 ft. 8 in., 150 Ibs.) Wayne Moore soon after he began swimming for Yale three years ago. On anybody else's team, Moore would have been a fast-stroking standout. But at Yale his talent was submerged at first in the backwash of two spectacular teammates: Australia's John Marshall, holder of the world 440-yd. free-style record, and Jimmy McLane, who, as an Andover schoolboy of 17, became the 1948 Olympic 1,500-meter freestyle champion. Last week, after a lengthening string of victories over Marshall and McLane, Yale's newly...