Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artist in Calcutta pawned his wife's jewels to rent a creaking, out-of-date movie camera. With a few of his actor-friends, Satyajit Ray left Calcutta one Sunday for an isolated village to the north. In that village, without building a single set or even clearing the yard, where much of the action takes place, he began filming Pather Panchali ("Song of the Road"). It was the first time he had ever operated a camera...
Lobby. In Cardedeu, Spain, burglars broke into a windmill and a carpenter's shop while their owners slept, ransacked them but took nothing, moved on to a stable, saddled a horse, fed it, left it tethered in the yard, broke into a local tavern, filled up on sausages and two quarts of wine, took all the money from the cash register and stacked it on the bar, disappeared into the night leaving a note behind: "What this town needs is a night watchman...
With Pranno glaring a yard away, Kelly last week stared at the committee's mahogany table, refused to answer questions. This provoked North Carolina's courtly Sam Ervin Jr. to a rare outburst. "It is a tragic state," said he, "to see a man who comes in the shadow of the Capitol of his country who cringes in fear...
...What well-educated natives," exclaimed a Midwestern matron upon arrival in the old British island of Jamaica. "They all speak English." ("What robbers!" she cried after her first taxi ride.) Everyone tried to fit in, and the first purchase was usually a hat-sometimes a yard wide, sometimes a yard high. But one visitor to San Juan, stepping briskly across the lobby of the Condado Beach Hotel in his floppy straw hat, checkered sports jacket, shorts, suede shoes and sunglasses, had a moment of self-doubt. "Do I look too much like a tourist?" he asked a friend...
...yard backstroke also should be close. Columbia's Frank Ranhoffer, a 2:23 man, faces the Crimson's Gary Pildner and Bill Murray...