Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dudley and Eliot won yesterday in House touch football games. The Commuters beat Leverett 30 to 6, with Bill Allison scoring two of the five touchdowns, while the Elephants outclassed the Lowell team...
...explained: "I do not mean to apologize for the intentions we ought to have as a sovereign people [to reunite divided Korea. But] these honorable and legitimate intentions of ours failed . . . The United States Government did not mean to support and implement these Korean aspirations for fear it might touch off the much dreaded third World War . . . Far from supplying us with heavy artillery and battle planes making an offensive action possible, the U.S. Government took special care to keep the R.O.K. in short supply of small ammunitions even . . . It is true that we meant to recover our lost national...
...more striking situations or original twists or hair-raising climaxes. But few recent ones have been so consistently competent. In terms of plot twists & turns, Mr. Knott always refills the audience's glass before it is quite empty; and in view of the danger of leaving fingerprints, his touch is consistently light. He clearly realizes that the author of a successful murder yarn has to think of almost as many things as the author of a successful murder...
Lawford has the proper light touch as the light-fingered leading man, and there is some spooky London fog to go with the murky dramatic doings. In spite of a moralistic ending that seems to have been tacked on, this made-in-Britain movie is a modestly diverting thriller that is as pleasantly well-mannered as its hero...
...time grandson Larry gets Cindy Lou, both Steamboat Gothic architecture and Steamboat Gothic ideas are beginning to crumble. The mistress of Cindy Lou is now Louise, whom Larry brought back from France after World War I. They already have a son and two daughters who could quite easily touch off a sequel. The fresh scene has already been set: oil is struck on Cindy Lou, and the old gothic pile itself has been turned into the Clyde Batchelor Community Center...