Word: trough
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broken with a series of jutting longitudinal strakes, like steps. In high waves, the strakes and deep V keep the hull level, nose down so that it knifes through the waves, while flat-sterned powerboats tend to leap off the crest of each swell and crash heavily into the trough. The result, according to Bertram: "less slip, more control"-and 40% higher speeds...
...frontier does not become too New, McLintock has to settle matters with his wife ("What put that burr under your saddle?"). For the film's showdown, Wayne and Actress O'Hara square off in the middle of town. Stripped to her shift, Maureen is dunked in a trough, turned bottomside up for a spanking, finally has to take a running jump onto the buggy to catch a ride home. But women need that. In Wayne's West, a bit of rough-and-tumble is all it takes to keep a girl's mind off divorce...
...obey. He tells of a 15-year-old girl who was beaten to death for letting a white baby cry. The slaves were helpless, since their testimony was not accepted in court. Most had to work from sunrise to sunset, and often longer. They ate from a common trough like pigs...
Crowding around the display tables like pigs at a trough, Harvard bibliophiles mobbed the fifth annual Bryn Mawr Book Sale in its opening skirmishes yesterday. In the two hours of the sale a mixed multitude of students, book dealers, kindly old ladies, and Harvard faculty members battled for positions and bought 3600 volumes of "Fiction, Literature and Ten-Cent Miscellany...
...growth as an actress, with a soaring, searing performance that comes close to fulfilling Tennessee Williams' prophecy that she may become "the American Duse." Ben Gazzara plays the lover with dark, penetrating force, and Pat Hingle's Sam alternately snorts at life like a pig in a trough and tearfully contorts his bruised ego like an infant who has missed the 2 o'clock feeding...