Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defense Minister Sohn Won II that promised: "You will get all your back pay. You will be promoted in the army. You will be cited for meritorious achievement. You will be given priority to take a government job." But the unbelieving Red P.W.s stayed hunched on their backless wooden benches. They chain-smoked and tried to keep warm. One started to make a propaganda speech ("I saw Americans bombing our camps with germs . . ."), but the Indian chairman quickly cut him off. The others spoke little, and without passion. Only when the ROK explainers showed photographs or played tape recordings from...
Prisoner in the Vatican. Like other Roman Catholics, the Pope confesses. He does so in a small confessional in his private chapel. His confessor is a German Jesuit. Afterward, as the two men emerge from the wooden booth, the confessor kneels to the penitent and kisses his ring...
...thinks the GOP will try to parlay its attacks on Truman into long range political cannon-fodder. "In tennis they say when you find an opponent with a wooden leg you force him from side to side, forward and back. You want to tire him. In politics you do much the same thing. The Democrats for twenty years thought they had a man with a wooden leg in Herbert Hoover. Now the Republicans have found their man with a wooden leg: Harry Truman...
...good collection of who dunnits) is not kept stored away, unread and out of use. The intellectual vigour of the Atheneum is testified to by its open shelf system, and the constant use of the alcoves along the walls, where the books are read on huge old-fashioned wooden reading frames, under unshaded bulbs...
...shoestring ($145,000), the film tells the life story of Wisconsin's All-America Elroy ("Crazylegs") Hirsch and is chiefly remarkable for the fact that Footballer Hirsch plays himself on the screen. Since he looks like a dark-haired Kirk Douglas and meets every cinema crisis with the wooden impassivity of Alan Ladd, Hirsch easily passes most of Hollywood's requirements for a leading...