Word: webbings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young man was very attentive to his mother. He lugged her heavy suitcases to the counter at Denver's Stapleton Airfield, and stood by while she checked in on United Air Lines Flight 629, bound for Portland, Ore. The three bags, a bulky, battered suitcase secured by two web straps, a briefcase and a smaller suitcase, weighed 87 Lbs. -37 Lbs. over the limit allowed each passenger. When the ticket agent told her she would have to pay $27 for the excess baggage, the mother, Mrs. Daisie King, turned to her son and said, "Thirty-seven...
...hero of The Spider's House is a dilettante culture vulture named John Stenham. In present-day French Morocco, he resents the growing web of tension, intrigue and violence spun by the French and the Arabs. A neutralist esthete in love with his romantic image of the Arabs as a race of noble and religious savages, he does not want the French to keep Morocco or the nationalists to take...
...match him, my Scottish cavalier, you may have to restrain your more glorious impulses." Since glory is box office, Taylor is in trouble. Things come to a head one night when "The Spider King" (Robert Morley), as history knows him, sits spinning his political web. "We are about to embark on a foul venture," he murmurs to a cackling familiar. "Foul and necessary, fit only for gypsies-and kings." The venture involves the betrayal of a lady fair (Kay Kendall) to a villain dark (Duncan Lament), and incidentally the death of Durward, her armed escort. However, when the sinister birds...
...worldwide mystery, the mid-century U.S. The Government, as governments should, expressed the society. In the Administration, there is hardly a man with a political position independent of Eisenhower's. Yet neither the fact of his illness nor the prospect of his retirement jolted the Administration. The web of committees and the pressure of agenda hold it tight. Richard Nixon, who is no second Eisenhower, quite adequately performs the coordinating functions...
...this means that a new air age is coming for the U.S. As a result of the rapid expansion of routes and increased competition, dozens of new cities will be tied into the air web. Instead of relying on planes largely for long-distance runs, U.S. travelers will soon be able to fly anywhere they choose, day or night, and do it faster and cheaper than ever before...