Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...switched off, half-dead from the pounding of the artillery and the 500-pound bombs and it seemed to me that the warning came in a whisper. Then he gave me a push. There was a flash and a furious burst of fire; the grenade had landed a yard away." The attack was repulsed by a radioman with a grenade launcher, but Just was badly gouged by the shrapnel...
...slowly going mad. He is terrified by demons, people whom he sees and fears. One is a homosexual, another a 216-year-old woman who keeps threatening to take off her hat-and her face. Gradually infected with her husband's aberrations, Ullman looks up from her yard one day and sees the ancient crone. Soon the artist and his wife are invited to a haunted castle where the Draculalike Baron von Merkens, who owns the island, presides over assorted evil spirits -a sadist, an effeminate embezzler, and Von Sydow's naked ex-mistress (Ingrid Thulin), who seduces...
LOOT. Black comedy has spawned black farce, and this is a saucy, irreverent, unremittingly amusing play that spews its lightly poisoned darts at freshly dead mothers, dutiful fathers, marriage, the Roman Catholic Church and police brutality. As a birdseed-brained flatfoot from Scotland Yard, George Rose pilfers the show...
...skedaddle with the loot while the funeral is going on. At the same time, the dead mother's cynically efficient nurse (Carole Shelley), a sevenfold murderess of previous husbands, is precipitously wooing the bereaved widower. Into this den of agitated vipers steps Truscott (George Rose) of Scotland Yard. Disguised as an employee of the water board in order to bypass certain laws that confine the limits of police activity, Truscott is the eternal flatfoot. He has an infallible gift for minute circumstantial deduction, such as the source of burn stains on a wedding ring, but he is oblivious...
Opening the second half Harvard showed it had the depth to play four quarters of rough football. Leo and Gatto took turns pounding out yardage. Fourth down and just 1/2 a yard to go at midfield, Gatto took a handoff and headed for a right end sweep. The Green defense held fast and threw him for a loss...