Word: steals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realities of a vixen wife and two ugly daughters. In the end his foundling secretary-who turns out to be his son-has carried off his dream woman, and the general is left lonely in the dusk. But he soon enough finds a pretty new housemaid to steal out with into the darkness...
...lauding "solidarity," the Chinese talked of the "independence" of non-Soviet Communist parties. The East German Communists, present almost to a man, were saying that their independence, in this case meaning their very existence, depended upon immediate economic aid from Russia, now that they were no longer able to steal Polish coal...
...trouble, say truckers, is that piggyback's impressive savings may prove their undoing. They fear that while short-run profits may rise, piggybacking leaves the door open for railroads to steal away bigger and bigger chunks of the freight market with their own trailer fleets. Says the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association, some of whose members look on piggybacking with a jaundiced eye: "Let's say the ABC trucking company operates a fleet of 1,000 power units and 1,500 trailers from the Midwest to the Eastern seaboard. Then the company decides to use piggyback. It disposes...
...picture concerns the plight of a band rebel cavalry men who steal $12,500 from the Union Army four days after the war has ended. Presley is cast as a crazy-mixed ("mad like a dog") up youth who kicks his wife, sneers at his mother, and shoots his brother. It is a difficult role for inexperienced Presley and everytime he tries to act, he muffs the part. And, as often happens in big-name productions, the stars are overshadowed by a minor characer who plays his part to perfection. In Love Me Tender the spotlight is captured...
...first screen appearance, with four songs and a secondary role as the hero's little brother in an otherwise routine south western, Elvis Presley all but steals the show from such better-knowrn players as Richard Egan. Debra Paget and Mildred Dunnock. Hollywood, moreover, foresees a box-office bonanza when the millions who buy Presley's pressings (Heartbreak Hotel, Hound Dog) go to see his first picture-and that will really be a steal...