Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comic strip called "The Berrys," which won a fourth prize, is the day-to-day epic of a dumb but well intentioned father, a port mother, and two sweet mischievous kiddies. Another freedom award was given to Pasadena's "Tournament of Roses" committee because it sponsored a parade dedicated to "Our American Heritage." Even advertising campaigns dramatizing weary American pioneers trudging through vast wildernesses rated freedom medals. These do not contribute much to understanding freedom, but play up "Americanism" for its own sake...
...some of Zivian's other stockholders. The committee was checking on how gangsters get into legitimate business. Through a series of mergers, including his recent $13 million purchase of Eaton's Portsmouth Steel, Zivian has made his company one of the biggest U.S. producers of cold-rolled strip steel. But the merger the Kefauver Committee wanted to know more about was his 1944 deal with Cleveland's Reliance Steel Corp...
Firefly One's crew dropped the flares through three-foot metal tubes, ripping off a strip of white webbing that ignited each flare and opened its parachute. Suddenly the valley below, surrounded by paddy fields striding up sharp-shadowed mountains, leaped into garish light. Bandbox identified the target-an east-west ridge with a saddle in the middle-and Firefly called down an Invader. The Invader pilot, however, could not find the target ridge. "Okay, boy," said Firefly, 'Til turn on my landing lights and point...
...first day of the west-sector attack, as the U.N. forces rolled across a scorched and blasted strip of no man's land, enemy resistance was negligible, except at Kumyangjang, where 474 were killed by air strikes and Turks (see The Allies). Later, Chinese resistance stiffened. At week's end, when an armored U.S. task force had slashed within eleven miles of Seoul, the Chinese were counterattacking in battalion strength. They were also using land mines and ambushes...
Molly (Paramount) brings The Goldbergs to the screen after a 21-year career in radio, vaudeville, comic strip, legitimate theater and television. As always, The Goldbergs spices its doughy lumps of linguistic comedy and tearful drama with an authentic flavor of Jewish family life in The Bronx, binds them with the hopes, frailties and loyalties common to all families...