Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with East Germany's President Wilhelm Pieck, Dr. Itten went to Berlin's Soviet sector. There he solemnly handed his box of trinkets (i.e., priceless Communist relics) over to East Germany's State Art Commission, watched grunting Germans load his precious statues on to a Swiss truck. An "exemplary cultural exchange," announced the art commissar grandly. Dr. Itten did not crack a smile...
...Egyptians fell back on hot words and glorious tales. One Cairo paper issued an extra with a story, completely fabricated, of how a cucumber-laden truck, confiscated by the British, blew up when the hungry Tommies started to unload it, killing 250 men. Handbills crying "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" appeared in British camps. Irregular units, fired with bloodthirsty language, popped out all over the delta...
...engaging, bespectacled Phil (High Button Shoes) Silvers, who works like a truck horse at the speed of a race horse and with the timing of a steeplechaser. As TV's headlining, scene-hogging, credit-grabbing Jerry Biffle, the sort of megalomaniac who would throw himself in the path of a car if the headlights seemed bright enough, he bears a distinct but not very damaging resemblance to Milton Berle...
...another complication arose. Edward F. Mahan, president of the CCA, walked by Sullivan's sound truck. Sullivan asked Mahan to refuse any of his attacks. Mahan agreed, and began walking toward the truck when a person sitting with Sullivan jumped out and grappeled with Mahan But two Cambridge policemen and several bystanders seized the unidentified Sullivan supporter and separated him from Mahan...
Cagney becomes a ragged, drink-wheedling bum. Only his fright after a narrow brush with death under the wheels of a truck, and a night in the alcoholic ward, make him want to stop drinking. With the help of a reformed lush (James Gleason), he painfully succeeds, though he never loses the craving for the one drink that he knows will start him skidding downhill again...