Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...actors, only Boyer, who plays the hero's father, shows any style. Hero Ford portrays his Argentine as a sort of Fisk Tire Baby with sideburns, but in one scene his performance does achieve a certain breadth. During a colossal CinemaScope closeup, according to an excited M-G-M press release, his eyes are darn near 65 ft. apart...
...went into the tire-recapping business, got rich by investing in Depression-era real estate. By buying low and selling high, he made a fortune after the war in depreciated bonds of the Baltimore Transit Co., saw the huge-and often overlooked-profit potentials in city transit. He bought heavily into the Scranton Transit Co., then got control as its receiver after an eight-month strike drove it to the brink of bankruptcy. Typically...
...curious as it seems, the President is something of an optimist. For he correctly supposes that he has presented a good case for the idea that the Russians alone now interfere with a test ban. He has proposed that they too tire of a nuclear cold war, and in his reasons for testing in the atmosphere he has managed to create a real chance for useful negotiation...
This is standard high school fare and it is occasionally effective on the adult level. But in general it is far from tantalizing, and readers soon tire of guessing games. In addition to these faults, about one-third of Observer leads bear no apparent relation to the headlines above them. And the rest of the article often degenerates into a chronological recital...
...Imperial regularly had so many maintenance problems that they took up half the time of a Federal Aviation Authority inspector in Miami, who reported the company this year had such "discrepancies" as hydraulic leakage, faulty fuel indicators, improper rigging of mixture control, a bald nose-gear tire, and fuel seepage under the wing...