Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They have a good, precise T," Barclay reports, "and they specialize in power stuff through the middle." Last week, Army exploded through the Illinois forward wall for 400 yards on the ground. They are currently rated as the number five team in the nation by the Associated Press sportswriters poll...
...Eleanor Holm. Sam Levene and Audrey Christie do a fine job of making these two into tough, witty, shrewd people, the kind Hart loves to harrass. Virginia Fields, who looks better than ever, portrays a shifty Lady in Lights who gurgles "darling" to almost everyone but her dull-witted Wall Street husband, obviously another pet peeve of Hart's. For only two major characters does the Hart show tenderness. One is the playwright in the plot, played earnestly and well by Barry Nelson. The other is the actress' mother (Phyliss Povah), slandered often, but always ready to play Gin with...
During interrogation the two were periodically made to stand with their faces to a wall, noses and toes touching it, hands over their heads. Questioners worked in relays. Most questions were variations on two basic themes: 1) Was it not true that their real purpose in Hungary was to sabotage the Hungarian government? 2) had they not been doing this by curtailing production? Their answers were continuously interrupted by shouts of "You're lying!" The first interrogation lasted six hours; the second, which began three hours later, lasted 15. Not until it ended were they given their first prison...
...confessions" and told to sign them. Interrogators pointed to a stack of statements by company employees. "You're not a boy. Look at what we have against you." Back in his cell, Ruedemann noticed for the first time the sketchy histories of some previous suspects scribbled on the wall. One had stayed in the cell 17 days, another 23. Said Ruedemann: "Then I asked myself, 'What am I doing here?' " Ruedemann signed the "confession...
...Times obituary called her "a London stray," but a memorial plaque on the wall of the little Church of St. Augustine-with-St. Faith-under-St. Pau's-Cathedral, flanked by citations from two continents, testified that she was more than that. The plaque told of a night when Faith, a gentle grey and white cat, had "endured horrors and perils beyond the power of words to tell" and through them all "stayed calm and steadfast." Even the Times paid tribute to this heroine who "stuck, while the bombs fell, to her kitten...