Word: stacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...educated, dedicated fanatic, a man of ideals, of courage and of remarkable qualities of leadership," Matthews wrote. Dressed in olive-drab fatigues and carrying a sniper's rifle with a telescopic sight, Castro seemed idolized by his men. Asked how he got supplies, Castro flashed a stack of pesos a foot high, hinted that he had plenty more. The morale of the rebels, whose number Castro kept to himself, seemed high. Batista's troops "never know where we are, but we always know where they are," Castro said. "We can pick them off at a thousand yards with...
...inhabitants of the tight little island, located in the Outer Hebrides 100 miles from the English mainland and "To the West, there is nothing--but America," would agree with Harry Stack Sullivan, famous American psychiatrist. Sullivan once said about alcohol, "I do not see how mankind could exist without this most marvelous of chemical compounds." One native echoes him, "It is a well-known medical fact that some men are born two drinks below normal...
...they get married. Unfortunately, the sudsy plot is only just getting under way. The moviegoer who decides to sit it out can watch Dorothy Malone play a nymphomaniac who has a yen for Rock Hudson, who, in turn, has a yen for Lauren, who gets slapped around by Stack, who eventually shoots himself accidentally, which enables Rock and Lauren to fall into each other's arms at last...
Written on the Wind (Universal-International) opens with Rock Hudson, geologist for a Texas oil company, taking Lauren Bacall, a secretary, to lunch at a swank Manhattan saloon where there is no telling what a pretty girl may be offered after the dessert. There she meets Robert Stack, an oil millionaire who quickly establishes the fact that he is a rich Texan by debonairly putting out his cigarette in a glass of champagne. Texan Stack asks Lauren to go for a ride before going back to the office. She accepts. Some hours later, the ride ends in Miami, where...
...stack of pamphlets is in three piles. The first pile contains one-sixth of them, the second pile several fifths of them, and the third pile contains six. What is the total number of pamphlets? Answer...