Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...along the jawbone. The left hand is almost fully extended, holding the barrel, and the right hand snaps off the shot. The gunner keeps both eyes open and on the top of the target, since most shooters instinctively shoot low. He does not aim. "That's a dirty word around here," says a Benning sergeant...
...White House had given no word on the President's plans by late last night. Boston police headquarters said yesterday afternoon they had gotten no word from the Secret Service to set up security measures for the President...
...there is another thing about every chestnut: for one reason or another it is dearly loved and long performed. The reason for The Lady's long and happy life is its language. Christpoher Fry has a Chinanman's fascination for high-meaning word plays, mixed with an Irishman's compulsive wit. He cannot bear to write a line, for even the lowliest of characters, which is not pure honey. The flow of mellifluous banter carries the play along, and on it floats truth after home truth. Few writers and fewer playwrights can mix colloquial expressions with genuine poetry as smoothly...
Flying Dutchman responds to is word from cronies or ex-crew members, and she does not lack for that. Messages come with poignant regularity from shore-bound mariners needing loans or new pickup trucks, who cable a likely description of the sailor. She is compelled to answer as if to the call of sirens, but scarcely cares when instead of her beloved she finds a swindler in Dahomey or a filling-station attendant in Sete. The same indifference is adopted by her new lover, the young Parisian, who comes to realize that their only true bond is their endless quixotic...
...tale unfolds, we find ourselves in the midst of a mass of unpleasant people. Shylock is not the only person interested in ducats; it seems that just about everybody in Venice and Belmont is a materialistic money-grubber. The very name Shylock is a transliteration of shalach, a Hebrew word for bird-of-prey; but here, almost all the characters are, in their diverse ways, birds-of-prey. These are unsavory people, notably lacking in spiritual values. (Is director Kahn trying to show us an image of mid-20th-century society...