Word: combat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...urgency of Annie's every action, her passionate need to dispense with the amenities-and with the Keller family's sentimental softness-in order to get down to the awful business of unlocking a darkened human mind and heart. It is onstage through every moment of physical combat as the adult teacher descends to the role of animal trainer in order to subdue a furious and frustrated child...
...Fight. During the unrestrained violence of the dinner-table combat between Anne and Patty, the play reaches its peak-in one of the most nerve-shattering scenes ever acted on Broadway. Ordering the Kellers out of the room, Annie flails into the heroic task of teaching wild young Helen the rudiments of table manners. Food and silverware explode across the room. Little Helen rushes to the door to pound out a plea for freedom. Annie promptly wrestles her back to her seat. Again and again and again, the child escapes and is captured. Again and again, Annie meets the near...
...BOMBER CUTBACK jolted the aircraft industry, resulted in 2,000 layoffs at North American Aviation, less drastic reductions at subcontractors Boeing, Lockheed and Chance Vought. Already stuck for $500 million in development costs, the Air Force has trimmed its $3.5 billion program for 62 combat-ready planes, has given North American the go-ahead on only two prototypes, which will be ready...
...faster than the U.S.'s? Budget Director Maurice Stans last week decried the "cult of growth," which would spur federal spending, unbalance the budget, and touch off another burst of inflation. But International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson Jr. called for new federal taxation, if necessary, to combat Russian expansion (see State of Business...
...directed by members of the Dunster House Drama Workshop will be presented this week by the House Drama and Music Society. The Beloved by Timothy Leland '60 and The Card Game by John Asher '61 will be shown tonight and Jonathan Revere '60 will read his verse play The Combat tomorrow. Both productions will begin at 8:30 in the House Dining Room and will be followed by discussion...