Word: spills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...borders. So far, they have retreated there with relative impunity. Last week ominous rumblings from all three of South Viet Nam's neighbors indicated not only that the Communist presence has become a serious problem, but that the war is approaching a new phase in which it may well spill over South Viet Nam's borders...
...kill them so that my society's beliefs may flourish. In light of recent demonstrations and an erratic Congress, what action do these friends and neighbors require? I cannot march to the Capitol; I can only march to war. While the enemy's blood may be spilled on the American conscience, it is going to spill on my hands. Why do they ask of me what they seem unwilling...
...consolation prize, if any, for this maudlin bundle of bathos is Sandy Dennis. She draws laughs from tears. An accident-prone waif who bruises an eye, bangs a toe and burns a finger, she runs to the audience to be comforted. She flutters and stutters, and sentences spill out of her mouth like rag dolls losing their stuffing. By now, though, this little-girl-lost act is beginning to cloy, and Sandy Dennis is in danger of losing her acting momentum in mannerisms...
...Israeli plan of battle was elegant in its simplicity. A single mailed fist of tanks and armor-borne troops would smash straight up into all the defenses in one concentrated attack. Once the fist had punched through, at whatever terrible cost, reinforcements would pour behind it to spill out in back of the enemy and flank him on his own high ground...
...present. Small wonder that digestive torpor soon sets in. Ustinov's hero is an unknown soldier who is always dying just before his recurringly pregnant wife can give birth. Like Brecht, Ustinov appears to believe that war is a continuation of the class struggle. The mighty spill the blood of the lowly in a kind of cruel game, a black farce. It is a question whether Ustinov's lines supply comic relief or comic sabotage to his theme. Says a general: "I sense a trap." Replies an archbishop: "That's unusual for a military...