Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Detail. In Rockymount, Va., volunteer firemen ran to the engine house to answer an alarm, there discovered that none of them knew how to drive the fire truck...
Huston has no truck with theories of esthetics or questions of style; his sharp directing is intuitive. He has a coldly intelligent knowledge of how much to leave free within the frame, and the born artist's passion for the possibilities of his medium. "In a given scene," he says, "I have an idea what should happen, but I don't tell the actors. Instead I tell them to go ahead and do it. Sometimes they do it better. Sometimes they do something accidentally which is effective and true. I jump on the accident...
Hankow, on the middle Yangtze, was a city of refuge last week. Into it from newly abandoned mission stations in Honan and. northern Hupeh provinces-by rail, truck, mule cart and often on foot-trekked American missionaries. They felt unable any longer to live and work in an area where Chinese Communists now marched almost at will. Three missionaries had been shot to death by "bandits" who hauled them from a bus shouting: "You are Americans, and Americans must die!" They were Martha Anderson of Minneapolis, Esther Nordlund of Chicago, and Dr. Alexis Berg of Finland, all attached...
Approaching Konitsa, a few shells passed overhead as we bumped along in a Canadian-built truck which the makers would not have recognized, there was so much wire and string holding it together. We lost count of the mine craters and dead disemboweled mules along the roadside...
Riding up in a truck's cab was black-robed, white-bearded Bishop Evlogios of Koritza-a town in Albania which the Greeks maintain ought to be theirs. The bishop agrees. Again & again the column halted to let the bishop scramble out and bless passing soldiers...