Word: tirelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...didn't do it now, nobody else would." Thanks to Scalzo's tireless prodding, 41 competitors got on the mat to grapple for the Greco-Roman titles. The large turnout meant that matches had to be cut to ten minutes-from the regular 15. As in catch-as-catch-can, Greco-Roman allows points for falls, near falls, takedowns, reversals and "activity." Discredit points are handed out for illegal holds, unsportsmanlike conduct...
...requiring Polaroid glasses). It is a black & white cops & robbers yarn about a criminal (Edmond O'Brien) who, as a result of a brain operation (prefrontal lobotomy), forgets where he has stashed away the $130,000 take from a payroll robbery. Like House of Wax, the movie seems tireless in depicting objects jumping out at the audience: surgical instruments, a car, a bird, a spider. In fact, just about everything seems to come out at the moviegoer except a good movie...
...tireless Benson machine, prayer is the basic fuel. A few years ago, when touring Mormon churches on a rehabilitation mission in Europe, Apostle Benson and other church leaders were blocked from entering Russian-occupied Poland. When things looked hopeless, Benson said: "I think I would like to pray," and went to his room. When he emerged, he announced to his assistant: "We are going to Poland. I have been commanded...
Bleeding Toes. Rosalind's tireless energy was bred in the bone. She was born 45 years ago in Waterbury, Conn the fourth of seven children ("I'm the ham in the middle") of Clara and James Edward Russell, a prosperous lawyer. She was named, not for Shakespeare's heroine, but for the S.S. Rosalind, a boat that once carried Father & Mother Russell on a vacation voyage to Nova Scotia...
...Robert Fryer, says that no one but Rosalind Russell was ever considered for the part of Ruth in Wonderful Town. Joseph Fields, who wrote the book with Jerome Chodorov, has never met anyone as quick and bright in the theater: "Ros learned her part in two days and was tireless in rehearsals." She also worked herself into the flu in the New Haven tryout and went on opening night with a temperature of 103°. There was more trouble: a chorus boy had dropped her during the conga and in Boston she was treated for a sprained back. The cast...