Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cards and rosaries to buy: you name it, Sister thought of it last week. (As I understand the parade, the children march around the room, dropping pennies in the mission bank until they run out of funds, the object being, of course, to stay on their feet.) For the upper grades, the approach is more subtle. You forgot your tie? Put a quarter in the bank or stay after school. And this is really ingenious: Sister 'sells' the desks to the class by way of an auction. You want a certain seat, you bid dimes and quarters against...
...short. Indiscreet is a conventional comedy of what Hollywood supposes to be upper-class manners, but it is flicked off in the high old style of hilarity that U.S. moviemakers seem to have forgotten in recent years. Director Donen deserves a cash-register-ringing cheer. Actress Bergman, always lovely to look at, is thoroughly competent in the first comedy role that she has played for Hollywood. And Gary Grant is in a class by himself when it comes to giving a girl a yacht...
...Thames combined. Filtered through the five Great Lakes, its steel blue waters normally run free of silt. The stages of the river rarely vary more than 7 ft., and its maximum now is only twice its minimum -bonus factors for hydroelectric development. Yet power engineers surveyed its upper reaches for half a century in hungry frustration; for even longer, navigators eyed it as a barrier and an opportunity...
...Snell Lock and the Eisenhower Lock ("Ike's dike," in seaway slang), pass on into the new, still unnamed lake. At the western end of the lake, a 5-ft. lift in Ontario's Iroquois Lock will hoist westbound ships into the calm waters of the upper St. Lawrence for easy steaming upstream to Lake Ontario...
...take off for Australia. He tried to sneak aboard but found the plane door locked. As he circled the plane, looking for a place to hide, he spotted the two nacelle cavities that house the big wheels when the plane is in flight. He climbed up, crouched among the upper struts of one of the cavities and, praying he would not be discovered, waited for the takeoff...