Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unhappily, the picture soon digresses from lively realism to lagging melodramatics. Tyrone Power is a topflight U.S. diplomatic courier bound from Paris for Salzburg to pick up secret documents from another courier. To make sure that he is on schedule, Power wears two wrist watches. The picture also allows him two beautiful girls-a mink-coated American minx (Patricia Neal) and a blonde European charmer (Hildegarde Neff...
...electric arm which Dr. Kessler described was made by International Business Machines Corp. The switches are operated by pressure of the toes. Electric motors supply power to bend and extend the elbow and wrist, to rotate the lifelike, plastic hand and to open and close the fingers and thumb...
...Boston audiences. "The bloody idiots here will pay $5 to see some swami pull rabbits from a hat, but they wont pay a buck to see a legitimate demonstration like mine. There's nothing phony about my show, but the fools keep thinking I've got a Dick Tracy wrist radio up my sleeve. I can't convince them that I'm not a fake, as long as they associate my work with fortune-telling. What we are trying to do is prove that the mind has great power. Just because some fakers have snuck in, real hypnotists and thought...
Association continue to sanction them as members of the organization they are trying to sabotage? These subversive agents for socialized medicine surely should get more than a slap on the wrist...
...deserve a sharp slap on the wrist...