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...Seconds to Hell is rarely caught with its suspense down. There are the sepulchral groans and squeaks as the rusty nose-bolts on the bombs begin to turn. There are the sweat-beaded pauses when the demolition man draws the cables taut as delicately as if he were landing a poorly hooked fish. There is the drawn-out moment when a seemingly defused bomb reveals a second fuse and blows a man to bits. And through it all, Director Aldrich deploys his camera like a melancholy tourist over the desolate Berlin ruins. As drama, Ten Seconds is something...
Back on May 3, while seated at the kitchen table, having a midnight snack, I took out my wallet, gave my wife her allowance and noted that I had $50 remaining therein. Came the dawn, and on getting dressed, I was missing one wallet. In a cold sweat my wife and I searched the house; for two solid weeks we searched the house, with no luck. I bought a new wallet, went through all the red tape of new operator's licenses, pass cards...
...Cabinet members had voluntarily taken a cut to $700. Urrutia was buying a $40,000 house, while "I have no house; I have bought no house."† Waving and tapping a yellow pencil, Castro stepped up the pace of the attack until his voice grew shrill and sweat darkened his open green army shirt...
Watching these developments, Wall Street began to sweat. Major steel shares worried off several points, and the Dow-Jones index of industrial stocks dipped from 663.56 to 657.13-despite the fact that steelmakers are expected to report high earnings in the next fortnight. To others, the strike was a cause for joy: foreign steel producers heavily stepped up steel shipments to the U.S., hoped to make strong inroads at the idling industry's expense...
...been exceedingly gratified with their wealth of knowledge, and with their presentation. In the classroom I have found the professors effervescing with scholarship, and daily demonstrating that, to them, "The work is play for mortal stakes." Yes, they stand there in the heat of the day enjoying the salutary sweat...