Word: tearfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's best play came off the library shelves: U.S. Steel Hour's adaptation of Sir James Barrie's 41-year-old sentimental comedy, The Old Lady Shows Her Medals. Gracie Fields worked hard for every tear as the plucky charlady who pretends she has a son fighting in France during World War I, and Jackie Cooper gamely took the hurdles of a Scottish accent as the upstanding Highlander who threatens to reveal her deception...
...issue out. Fiery, fight-happy students served as troops; they fought for the occupation of school buildings in Buenos Aires, La Plata, Rosario, Córdoba and other cities. Winning forces locked themselves inside. Other students, 6,000 strong, clashed and rioted in front of the presidential palace, using tear-gas bombs made by chemistry students as weapons. The weight of numbers favored the anticlericals. At length Aramburu accepted Dell'Oro's resignation (offered by telephone from Lima, where Dell'Oro had just been elected president of an inter-American conference of education ministers...
...protocol and embattled public relations, the strain of that moment was beginning to show on each. Rainier fidgeted nervously during the 16-minute civil ceremony in the palace throne room that made them man and wife in the eyes of Monaco law. By the following day, the wear and tear on his fiancée was beginning to show in telltale circles beneath her coolly beautiful blue eyes. At least one member of the wedding party, Newlywed Actress Rita Gam, got so wrought up that she had to be put under doctor's care...
...need to stop the beat of an adult's heart already damaged by a blockage in the arteries feeding its muscle (coronary thrombosis or myocardial infarction). Bertram Sommerfield, 49, a Houston businessman, had a heart attack three months ago. One of its incidental effects was to tear a gaping hole in the septum between the ventricles. In adults, this usually is quickly fatal...
...Cinerama release, the producers have not bothered to refine their process much. The moviegoer is really watching three movies at once, and when, as still frequently happens, one half of a cathedral or a Japanese chorus girl, no matter how solid, is parted from the other by a sudden tear in the seam where the images meet, the trick becomes all too crudely apparent...