Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Indian island of Jamaica to rehearse for a television Spectacular. On a Ford Star Jubilee program (CBS-TV, 9:30 p.m. E.D.T., Oct. 22), Mary will nostalgically warble tunes from her past hit musicals, be spelled by Coward, in his TV debut, husking some of his own melodic wit...
...long, tense duel begins, wit to wit and will across will, between the embattled householder and the leering principle of unreason that fists in his refrigerator and lords it on his hearth. Worse still, March soon realizes that the law is no less his enemy than the outlaw; for if the police find out where the criminals are hiding, they are sure to come after them, and when they do, Bogart & Co., as promised, will make sure that March and family die first. The man of the house stands alone, and if he falls, his family falls with him. What...
Above all else Felix developed the ability to change his nature and his wit to profit from any situation. He could be French, Italian or English at the drop of his handsome lower lip. He could entertain monarchs with homely stories about house pets or penetrating analyses of the social-economic state of the nation...
...like an adventure serial in which the characters and plot remain the same, but the conflict deepens. With wit and a careful aim, Professor Bestor once more lashes his favorite villains, the "professional educationists," who, by flooding the schools with "life-adjustment" courses and forcing teachers to master "the mere vocational skills of pedagogy," deprive students of the "intellectual disciplines that have rightly been considered fundamental in education." But, as its title implies, The Restoration of Learning balances negative criticism with a number of positive suggestions for educational reform. They are apt to be as controversial as anything Professor Bestor...
...carriage strap." Author Woodbury, a onetime anthropologist and a ninth-generation descendant of William Goffe, is the present proprietor of the family mill. He has tied his odd bag of characters together with historical facts, New England folkways and early Americana. John Goffe's Legacy crackles with wit, adds a few asterisks to history, and makes the reader wonder how New England ever acquired a reputation for being stolid and conservative...