Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...process that fascinated audiences is called Natural Vision, a new twist on the old stereoscope and on MGM's 1937 two-reel "depthies." Two projectors throw separate images on the screen. The light of each image is polarized, i.e., filtered so that it "vibrates" in only one plane, at a right angle to the other image. Wearing glasses fitted with polarizing lenses (furnished by the theater management), the viewer sees a different picture with each eye; his brain combines the images into a three-dimensional picture...
...French spotter planes could hover close enough to see a man reading a map, call in a dozen Bearcats for a napalm strike and watch a camouflaged Viet Minh troop concentration scatter in terror. All that was required now was for the fanatical Communists to charge the French positions, throw themselves on the French wire...
...held Hanoi delta to the China border is a string of hedgehog defenses: the Black River line. Three weeks ago, when Communist General Giap (TIME, Nov. 17) attacked Laichau at the westernmost end of this line, General Linares had thrown in Operation Lorraine. It was a counterpunch, aimed to throw Giap's armies off balance and to cut one of his main supply lines from Communist China...
...spectators rather than actors . . . They view both sides of questions with equanimity, seeing the strengths and weaknesses of each . . . but never align themselves with either of the contending forces. Surely the effective citizen . . . must be willing to stand up and be counted, to make a commitment, to throw his weight on the side of truth...
...Tracy) despised the Pilgrims as hypocrites and fools until he was mellowed by beautiful Dorothy Bradford (Gene Tierney), wife of the colony's second governor, William Bradford (Leo Genn). It was Mrs. Bradford's unrequited love for the skipper, according to Screenwriter Deutsch, that caused her to throw herself overboard...