Word: staggering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Keith, Claudette Colbert is at last emancipated from the kind of role where she has to choose between George Brent and a career. She gets the chance to have a miscarriage, sweat out intermittent attacks of malaria, crawl on her back under a barbed-wire fence, gasp and stagger through the jungle, fight off a would-be assaulter, get beaten, slapped, and spit upon. Miss Colbert does all these things convincingly and manages as well to brig charm and warmth to the scenes with her husband and little...
...night had split open into horror and confusion. Men & women trapped in the cars screamed to be let out. Some managed to crawl through smashed windows and stagger aimlessly into the darkness...
Barring unforeseen journalistic efforts by Harvard Yearbook Publications, Crimson newsboys will be taking a day off Monday. Subscribers may rest assured, however, that the local sheet will be lying outside their doors as they stagger out to exams Tuesday morning and that it will be the real thing...
...spurted again. As his lead widened to 15 yards, friends shouted, "Slow down, Herb! Slow down!" He had stepped the first 440 yards in 48.8 seconds, near-record time, but it was too fast a pace for the 600. With half a lap to go he began to stagger, and Brooklyn's Frank Fox made a bid to pass...