Word: yesteryears
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...which he dismisses like a crumb from his roll-away sleeve. At other moments, however, they resemble isolated islands of vitality just spoiling for a good fight to the finish with the moribund Mainland: lateral against vertical, Harley 74 against Country Squire station wagon, hipster against mark, today against yesteryear, WAR. And in any such conflict, who but the Herald Tribune's own T. K. Wolfe Jr., would emerge as the new Ernie Pyle...
...Face of Fu Manchu. The re-makers of Fu Manchu are clearly aware that the nonsense of yesteryear taps a jumpy vein of contemporary anxiety-all those diabolical Chinese, seeking ways and means to make Western civilization heel to the Yellow Peril...
This game was more than a warmup against paunchy veterans from yesteryear. The alumni featured Gene Kinasewich, now playing on the Eastern Olympic Hockey Club, Bob and Bill Cleary, stars of the U.S. Olympic hockey teams in '60 and '64, Ike Ikauniks, all-East for Harvard two seasons ago, and John Daly and Wade Weich, last year's captain and goalie, respectively...
...Wham-O, it is simply crossing its collective fingers. Well aware that fads are a sometime thing (where are the Hula-Hoops of yesteryear?), Executive Vice President Richard P. Knerr optimistically comments: "Each Super Ball bounce is 92% as high as the last. If our sales don't come down any faster than that, we've got it made." And if they do-well, that is the way the ball bounces...
...PAWNBROKER. A compelling performance by Rod Steiger gives focus to this grim drama about an old Jew caught between the horrors of Spanish Harlem and the Nazi horrors of yesteryear...