Word: walks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elegant, cynical fellow who plays with human lives like a petulant puppet master. With the help of a luscious French trollop (Corinne Calvet), the two men are bent on frustrating the aims of a hulking American hunting guide (Burt Lancaster) who feels that he has earned the right to walk off with some of their precious pebbles...
...patriarch himself had taken time out from his Senate duties to intervene in the campaign-something he had not done since his own gubernatorial walk-in in 1925. He bustled about, trumpeting for State Senator John S. Battle...
...People spread Barbara's breathlessly ghostwritten story all over Page One. Said she: "I feel bitter about what he [Haigh] has done but I cannot lose my love for him. If he could walk out a free man, I would walk beside him . . . Never once did he do anything of which my mother would be ashamed." But News of the World's 8,000,000 readers would have to wait for Haigh's own story. Until his appeal had been heard, English law, safeguarding his rights to the end, would not permit Haigh to prejudice his case...
...fiasco he says: "I must have been out of my mind. I thought I'd just walk in and they'd point the camera at me. You have to cope with 16 people with things on their minds like making chalk marks on the floor . . . The director tells the cameraman to move to the right and he says, 'You mean your right or my right...
With no compelling reason to compromise and with production outrunning demand, the steel industry might prove as agreeable as the coal industry to a shutdown that would use up customers' stockpiles. Knowing this, steel union leaders were likely to walk cautiously, but CIO President Philip Murray showed no sign of backing down. This week, after getting both sides into a huddle Federal Mediation Director Cyrus S. Ching told President Truman that they were hopelessly deadlocked. Murray said this could mean only one thing, strike. Apparently, he was putting his chips on the hope of last-minute intervention...