Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Play was more even in the second half, both sides coming very close to scoring. The Crimson saved a try when it forced an M.I.T. runner out of bounds in its end zone (the ball must be touched down to count), and were unluckly in turn when Charlie Eaton and then Jim Coper and Ash Hallett nearly dribbled the ball over the Engineer's line...
Steady, Now. But when he likes, Philip can turn on a charm that is dazzling, does it with an easy irreverence royalty seldom achieves. Walking down a line of spectators, he noticed a young girl pretending to swoon as he passed. Philip grinned at her: "Steady, now." On another occasion, a young matron took a look at him and murmured: "Mmmmm." Philip heard her, looked her up and down, and said: "MMMMMMmmm." He may examine a Buckingham Palace menu in elaborate French, remark cheerily to the guests: "Ah, good. Fish and chips again...
...were provided with more clothing-350 pairs of overshoes and 350 raincoats flown in from Vancouver. Eight chartered buses, which had churned through a blizzard from Edmonton to get there on time, took them to Westcoast Transmission's huge gas-scrubbing plant (TIME, Sept. 2). Then, at the turn of a valve, gas roared through the 30-in. pipe heading south for Vancouver, and a gas flame leaped symbolically skyward. Said Frank McMahon: "So far it has all been going out. Now it will start coming...
...from the often marvelously demented first part of Adventures in the Skin Trade, Williams gets his best turn of the evening. Here a Welsh youth reaches London, makes friends in the railway-station restaurant, and goes to a furniture dealer's crammed house where "chairs stood on couches that lay on tables" and conversation went on while people bounced up and down on spring mattresses or were hidden behind columns of chairs. At length the young man found himself in a locked bathroom with a girl trying to lure him into the tub with her. Here an evening that...
...clue, which most critics seized on, is that Soviet art still stands where Western European art was at the turn of the century. Hints have reached the outside that younger Moscow artists are painting clandestinely in the manner of Cezanne; some are even reported to be secretly painting abstractions. If so, no samples were shown at the current exhibition. Instead, there were conscientious sketches of oil derricks, streaking red jets, power lines, blast furnaces, and a young Soviet woman standing fast with a lantern by a railroad switch...