Word: staggers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night after Bigger has driven the girl home from a party, he helps her stagger to her room. She drunkenly insists on his staying there a while. The girl's blind mother enters and, in desperately trying to prevent the girl from giving his presence away, Bigger accidentally smothers her to death. A reporter later discovers that Bigger has burned the girl's body in the furnace, and the Negro is captured in an empty house. A Darrowesque lawyer (Ray Collins) makes a plea for Bigger's life on the ground that racial oppression must inevitably lead...
...stuff Ivey likes to hear: "How does horse racing get away with it? ... A horse comes in . . . among the also-rans in one race and in the very next he finishes so far ahead that he's through taking his shower before the place pony can even stagger home. Or vice versa. At least vice...
...whiff, they said, makes soldiers stagger and fall, their muscular coordination anesthetized as by "twilight sleep." Fuhrer Hitler last weekend personally handed the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross to Lieut. Witzig and seven other flying officers for their "incomparable daring" in taking Eben Emael and certain bridges over the Albert Canal. He promoted Lieut. Witzig to captain. To the inventors of the new Angriffsmittel went greater tribute: real alarm among the Allies lest this unknown new weapon prove a key to unlock the Maginot Line...
...faltered in the last two stanzas but was able to stagger through to a win. The Bengals tagged him for five runs in those last two innings, and for a time the rally assumed dangerous proportions...
Andy Hardy. Four more Hardy pictures were made and Mickey found himself with an income of some $1,000 a week and $10,000 bonus per picture. In rapid succession he acquired a list of good things that would stagger the imagination of the dreamiest moppet in the highest hayloft on the hottest day. Items: a ranch, a race horse, a twelve-room home, 19 radios, a jazz band, two dogs, the junior singles tennis championship of the Pacific Southwest, a wardrobe like Clark Gable's, two automobiles, a hideaway apartment in Beverly Hills, a football team, a colored...