Word: thing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assurance was welcome to Berliners, and so was Herter. He returned to Geneva refreshed by his enthusiastic reception. The only dismaying thing about the trip was the need for it. As things were going at Geneva, a little reassurance all around was necessary. The West was being firm about defending Berlin "rights" but flexible about discussing Berlin "arrangements"; Herter worried that West Berlin morale might some day be affected by misunderstanding of such fine diplomatic distinctions...
Glory, Not Gold. The time was fast, but the pros made it look slow. With a harrumph that "it's a good thing for recruiting-it's not really the money we're after," Britain's army and air force warmed up. The first man, Army Captain R. M. ("Red Rory") Walker, 29, rode a motorcycle from Marble Arch to a floating dock on the Thames, leaped into a helicopter, transferred to a jet trainer at Biggin Hill R.A.F. field for the flight to Villacoublay, eleven miles from the Arc, caught a helicopter to Paris...
...certain breed of winning football coach, a giant tending to paunch since his playing days, a man with a muscular glad-hand and sharp tongue, a celebrity of sorts who had had so much acclaim that he floated on an air of supreme self-confidence, certain that things would be fine-so long as he won. Once, when the student paper at his alma mater, North Carolina, took him to task for "playing to win and win alone," Big Jim Tatum replied: "Winning isn't the most important thing-it's the only thing...
...movie is about an inquisitive doctor with a ghoulish enthusiasm for slicing up the cadavers of those who died in fear. He is sure that fright is a living thing that survives in corpses in much the same way that hair and fingernails have been popularly believed to grow after death. So he performs an autopsy on the body of an electrocuted criminal, frightens his wife unconscious by faking her murder, finally shocks a deaf-mute into a heart-stopping nightmare-blood running from the bathroom spigot, a rubber-masked fiend with knife and hatchet popping out of closets...
...Budget. When he got to Hollywood, Bill began a long series of low-budget pictures. They were equally low on profits. Then, in 1957, he made a horror film called Macabre. It was not much of a picture-in fact, it was a wretched thing -but Bill paid Lloyds of London $5,000 for life insurance covering anyone in the audience who died of fright. The picture cost only $80,000, grossed an estimated $1,200,000. This year, Bill released The House on Haunted Hill. The picture cost $150,000, but he spent $250,000 manufacturing skeletons that dance...