Word: spined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...railroads the most egregiously featherbedded industry in the U.S. Not all examples are so flagrant, but the railroads declare that featherbedding costs them $500 million a year. Now, in the middle of negotiating new contracts, the roads have served notice that they intend to replace the feathers with some spine-stiffening substitutes -at the risk of a strike...
...rate of 2,000 an hour, motorists rolled onto the motorway on its first day, and went weaving and swerving across the unfamiliar lanes in a spine-chilling display of what police later called "bad traffic-lane discipline." Fast drivers jockeyed at speeds that reached 120 m.p.h. Slowpoke trucks and antique autos clung stolidly to lanes reserved for fast traffic. Scores of cars, not up to the pace or to the handling they got, gasped to a halt-as often as not on the pavement-with burst tires, smoking engines or empty fuel tanks. In the first five hours there...
...suffer from a bad case of hiccups, head over to the Brattle this week. Yes, gentle folk, it's Horror Time at your local art theatre. Horrors of the Black Museum, the first of the spine-tinglers, will be followed Wednesday by Blood of the Vampire. For the weekend ghoul, there's Horror of Dracula...
...first Shakespearean assignment, director Jose Quintero made some miscalculations; but some of his staging was ingenious and effective, such as the scenes involving the spine-chilling trio of Weird Sisters. The show was visually gripping; and much of the credit must go to the lighting of David Hays '52, which was as inspired as I have seen in a long time...
...Reiss Merin, Mary Perrine, and Patricia O'Grady make a really spine-chilling trio of Weird Sisters, though someone slipped up in failing to provide them with the beards that Banquo calls attention to. All three of their scenes are most ingeniously and effectively staged...