Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along Yugoslavia's wild coast of Dalmatia, the test of a man is his ability to pull an oar. In the balmy Adriatic summer the test comes rarely. But in winter, the cold bora wind sweeps down from the mountains, battering the little fishing boats with gusts that reach 120 m.p.h., and the lives of the whole crew depend on their oars...
...romantic and starry night like this, it's hard to keep your mind on your business," said Steve Allen, sticking to the script as he peered into the Havana sky last week. The sky was overcast and black, and a chilly wind sent wavelets across the swimming pool at the Havana Riviera Hotel, where NBC was beaming its first major live production over the horizon from Cuba...
...light hand might have rescued what is young and touching in such scenes from what is infantile and mawkish, but Producer Selznick (Gone With the Wind) likes to keep production under his thumb. He bears down to good effect in the battle sequences among the umber Dolomites, and he shrewdly distracts his audience, during the dullest stretch of the story, with a ravishing cinemalbum of the blue Italian lakes. Jennifer Jones's heroine appears to be more neurotic than the plot requires, and the final stages of her pregnancy, as the camera just keeps staring at her heavily padded...
...skein of yarn with which the cat has been playing for years. It is badly snarled and loose ends stick out all over. . . It cannot be untangled by wrapping more yarn on the outside. . . It is a big, vast, intricate thing, and I don't think you can wind another committee or another czar or another group on the outside of a tangle and straighten out the tangle...
Next, Getty says that Getty Oil will offer to swap its own stock for the 58% of Mission Development ,that it does not now own. The expected offer: one. Getty Oil share for 1⅓ Mission Development. If all goes through as expected, Getty Oil Co. will wind up with direct majority control of Tidewater. This would eliminate even the outside possibility that Getty could ever lose control of Tidewater...