Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would its tough Argentine policy be a success? The U.S. would get a quick answer at this Sunday's election. If democratic candidate José P. Tamborini won, so had the U.S. If totalitarian Perón were elected President, it would take more than words to blast him out of Argentina's Casa Rosada...
Last month the Duhalde Government, seeking to appease rightist sentiment, cracked down on a strike of Communist-led nitrate workers. Duhalde brought in tough, smooth Vice Admiral Vicente Merino Bielich, boss of the Navy, to serve as Minister of Interior and strong man. Trade unionists, dismayed at such developments, staged a general strike, demonstrated in the streets of Santiago, demanded a government of the left. But labor's solidarity now collapsed. Socialists, offered four portfolios, joined the new Government, denounced the Communists for brewing another general strike. That left the Popular Front in ruins, the Cabinet uneasily balanced with...
...home life of a baboon and his blonde-is delightful. After that, plot starts muscling in on character, and the show has its ups & downs. But things are kept moving by enough good gags and two topnotch performances. Radio Sports Announcer Paul Douglas makes a solid character-tough, vicious, yet somehow comic-of Harry Brock. Judy Holliday (Kiss Them for Me), with her flat voice, slow takes and floozie walk, is often wonderful as the blonde. When she sorts her cards in a gin-rummy game, Broadway gets one of the great comedy moments of the season...
...best with in recent memory, is largely the work of three men; Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, who adapted the novel of the screen, and Ray Milland, who plays the part of the hero, Don Birnam. Wilder, whose handling of "Double Indemnity" began the current wave of violent, tough guy films, also directed "Weekend...
Trinity's Tyler brothers, Dave, Bob, and Dick, will give Hal Ulen's once-victorious and once-beaten swimming squad a tough fight tomorrow night in the Indoor pool at 8 o'clock, according to all advance indications...