Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throne. In October he will become the first member of the royal family ever to enter the ranks as a private. After pre-cadet training, he will take the examinations for Sandhurst, Britain's West Point, hoping to make the army his career (preferably as a tank officer...
...steel, and clandestinely carried them to the machine shop. For two years, under cover of night, Vaclav hammered and riveted his precious machine together. One midnight last week it was ready-a homemade armored car carefully designed to look like a Czech army model, even down to clattering tank tracks. The conspirators decked the machine with leaves and branches to give it the look of a camouflaged vehicle on maneuvers. Then Vaclav, his wife, their two young children, and the four others piled in, and the wonderful machine set off with a rumble toward the West German border 35 miles...
Richard III, the alternating attraction, is considerably less successful. The play surges stirringly over the steps and platforms of an ingenious permanent set; troops of actors use every conceivable kind of entrance, save sliding down the tent poles. But the production traps Alec Guinness like Houdini in his water tank, and he manages only a few times to burst forth with some real acting. Guinness could never be really bad, and is always good company. But he is apt to be subtly ironic where Richard must be grandly hypocritical, mildly unpleasant where he should be heroically evil...
...stitch, clip, saw-faster, faster, faster, there are more waiting." At the front, he was wounded by mortar fire and ran a gauntlet of fire back to temporary safety as the Communists overran the U.S. positions. On the morning of July 23, Deane went forward to join the single tank company that covered the U.S. retreat. He never reached...
...Author Carson saw the sea as a poet might, with the inward eye, Director Irwin Allen sees it mostly through a very expensive anastigmatic lens. Though the movie is all about water, it strangely does not flow. The camera concentrates on episode after episode, like an observer stepping from tank to tank in an aquarium, not like a diver roaming through the stopless ocean...