Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...becomes a famous gypsy entertainer, travels through Europe from success to success and from sin (Gustavo Rojo) to sin (Dennis King). Crowd scene follows crowd scene: theaters, bullfights, battles. She finds her dragoon again at the side of the "Iron Duke" just before the Battle of Waterloo, which is thrown in for good measure. In the end, of course, she goes back to the convent, and at this point it becomes painfully apparent that the moviemakers intend, even at the risk of sacrilege, to have their unleavened bread and eat it too. But after more than two hours of claptrap...
...weather. The 124 planes of the 26th fighter wing stationed near the coast were pulled back on June 5. The only daylight action of the Luftwaffe on D-day was one two-plane air strike. For twelve hours, Jodl refused to release two Panzer divisions that might have been thrown in, and feared to interrupt Hitler's pill-drugged sleep with news of the invasion until the official Allied communique. Wakened in the forenoon of June 6, Hitler ranted, as always, at his generals, and clung to the illusion that the invasion was another Dieppe-style raid...
McKeever had been aggressive before. Last year the same elbows scythed into Cal Quarterback Joe Kapp, and that time U.S.C. drew a 15-yd. penalty that set up a Cal touchdown (Cal won 14-12 and went on to the Rose Bowl). This season Mike McKeever was thrown out of the U.S.C.-Stanford game for sinking an elbow into Stanford Center Doug Pursell. And after Bates had been sent off to the hospital in the U.S.C.-Cal game, Mike McKeever chopped away, twice elbowed Cal Quarterback Pete Olson, was finally thrown out of the game-but only after opening...
...Catholicism, but he could never rid his mind of the systems of Aquinas and Aristotle. He loathed and left his native land, yet his bitterness was inverted longing. Small wonder that Nora once told a friend: "You can't imagine what it was like for me to be thrown into the life of this...
Miss Howard, Mr. Hooks, and Mr. Malet represent the new dispensation at the Charles, which has taken to bringing in New York actors of some reputation. (The mainstays of their former permanent company have gone to seek their fortunes in New York.) The improvement over the recent, thrown-together productions on Warrenton Street is noticeable, and, as they say, it augurs well...