Word: teare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a body moves with the speed of sound, the air does not yield smoothly. Instead, hard shock waves (sound waves) form. These are no gentle whispers; they are tough, speeding shells of compressed air, powerful enough under certain conditions to tear an airplane to bits...
...Ahead. Colonel Boyd believes that Chuck has done just about enough test flying, but he hasn't the heart to tear him away from his beloved X-1. There is still work to be done with the little orange airplane, and it is an open secret that soon a greatly improved model will be ready...
...quality, the show is by no means up to the production. But it is surefire popular stuff, filled with surefire popular stuffing. Hammerstein & Logan have contrived a shrewd mixture of tear-jerking and rib-tickling, of sugar & spice and everything twice. Their musical play is far superior to the usual libretto nonsense; it is quite the equal, in fact, of the usual movie yarn. To all those for whom the plot's the thing, for whom heartbeats are more important than dance steps, South Pacific will seem-as it may well be-a perfect union of film and footlights...
Only the Livestock. Now being shown in Latin America and Australia and still going strong in the U.S., Mom and Dad is a knowing mixture of syrup, spice and corn. It blends scenes of childbirth, a Caesarean operation and the ravages of venereal disease into a tear-squeezing fable about a high-school girl who "got into trouble" because her parents kept her in ignorance. (Catch lines: "It Happens Somewhere Every Night," "Millions Learned the Hard Way, But You Can See the Facts...
...Hotel Bermudiana where for $2 a head they attended the annual Rugby Ball. For a time, the Bermudiana toyed with the idea of charging $4 a man, but a short poll of the eligible guests beforehand showed this figure to be prohibitive. Most players were able to tear themselves away from the commitments at the Elbow Beach Surf Club in time to attend this, the keynote ball of Rugby Week...