Word: strength
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulcinea Smith is a witless, bromidic, meddlesome but well-meaning woman with a mania for engineering other people's lives. She manages to have a finger in every pie and a foot in every mouth. In a bridge game she wonders whether she should "discard from strength or weakness." Actually, she does everything from weakness...
...quarterback slot, with McLaughlin, Johanson, and sophomore Charlie Ravenal, appears to be in good hands, as does the fullback position, where veterans Sam Halaby and Chris Hauge promise to give Yovicsin consistent strength up the middle. Halaby, especially, has shown considerable improvement over last year and should be a considerable running threat along with Boulris...
...important foreign-policy moves since Korea. As no mere reassuring pronouncement could do, they guaranteed that the most powerful arms in the world were on call to defend national freedom, that in its attempt to work toward a just and foolproof peace the free world could deal from ready strength and not from weakness...
...Vulpes fulva was spelled Vulpes Tulva, explained: "Range: Forrest regions in the temperate and sub-artic parts of both old and new world." The cherry-headed mangabey, read another sign, makes "speach-like sounds," while the eland runs in "large heards." The bear is famed for "it's strength and ferocity," and ostriches for "there keen sight and wary nature." Acting Zoo Director Vincent M. Mc-Namara promised that the signs would be replaced-when the zoo had enough money-but not, some thought, until the sign-painting creatures in the monkey house got a better grasp of spelling...
...Country. Director-Producer William Wyler's return to the Old West is no less triumphant because it is frankly epic in scope, and Burl Ives acts with the strength of ten as an up-from-the-dust rancher; with Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Charlton Heston, Carroll Baker (TIME, Sept...