Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning, the talk was chiefly of what the final communiqué would say. The foreign ministers met and deadlocked. As the time for the afternoon summit meeting approached, dark storm clouds crept in from the north over the Jura Mountains. Bulganin rattled off a version of the old Russian proposal for a world disarmament conference, which the Russians first made two months ago. It was so familiar that some delegates thought they could even understand the Russian words...
Texas bubble-gum snappers have their own violent version, as yet mercifully unrecorded...
...cured and leaves. The writer returns, and out of compassion gives her one straw of hope for life: the promise of his love. Although O'Neill's youthful worst is pretty bad, by some miracle of bad taste, the changes made in his text for the TV version managed to make the play even worse. O'Neill's final note stresses man's indomitable hope in the face of hopelessness. The TV version concluded with a happy ending, sugar-coating O'Neill's bitter pill...
...Distributors Corp. of America, producers of the film version of I Am a Camera, John Van Druten's 1951 stage play about a frankly promiscuous girl, was holding its pocketbook and its breath, waiting for a seal of approval from Hollywood's Production Code Administration. Filmed in England, the picture stars Julie Harris, who is called upon to utter such lines as "I might not be exactly what some people consider a virgin . . . but I've been chaste-chased by every man," and "What shall we do first-have a drink or go to bed?" Said...
...life in the very language of those wonderful, distant days. His racy and ebullient yarns of plugging canal leaks, spiriting runaway slaves along the underground railway, and keeping books for a traveling circus are crammed with theologasters, dawpluckers, makebates, hoodledashers and such archaic huncamunca. His grandson's version of baseball in the Abner Doubleday country may not be so uproarious as James Thurber's rowdy recollections of the game in Columbus, Ohio. But his saga of Hop Bitters ("The Invalid's Friend& Hope"-alcoholic content: 40%), which Patent Medicine Man Asa T. Soule of Rochester put over...