Word: villainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bomb test. Dogpatch is dramatically saved when Mammy Yokum (Billie Hayes) produces the only surviving specimen of the Yokumberry tree, whose fruit distills a tonic that can make any man as big and strong and beautiful as Li'l Abner (Peter Palmer). Then the plot thickens as the villain (Howard St. John) slinks upon the scene in the form of that well-known Cappitalist, General Bullmoose ("What's good for General Bullmoose is good for the U.S.A."). His plot: to secure the secret formula of Yokumberry Tonic and sell it to the thirsty public as Yoka Cola...
...affected a laugh so bloodcurdling that Actor Henry Irving imitated it for dramatic moments in Shakespeare's plays. He often signed his paintings with a butterfly armed with a scorpionlike tail. He inspired much of Trilby's demonic master villain, Svengali. His mistress-of-the-hour strutted nudely past his devout Episcopalian mother, neither one guessing that posterity would make James Abbott McNeill Whistler's mother the most renowned artist's model of all time...
...caused the paralysis could be traced, in a way, back to the U.S. Air Force, but even leftist critics, who have been successful in forcing the U.S. to abandon its $500 million complex of bases in Morocco, were hesitant about putting the blame on the Americans. The real villain was the greed of a few Moroccan businessmen...
They Came to Cordura. Gary Cooper on another western road, but this time the villain is cowardice, and the showdown involves not the fall of a body but the rise of a soul...
...capitals next month, he will not find the same kind of qualified, experienced diplomat that greeted Mr. Khrushchev on his similar travels a few years ago. The Ugly American may have been the hero of the book, but in the form of the amateur ambassador, he is currently the villain of American diplomacy...