Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the marines go into action, at Tarawa and Two Jima, they behave more like marines. While taking pains to reconstruct big scenes of the island battles, Republic has leaned heavily on incomparable wartime film to catch the terrible fury of the Pacific fighting. Unfortunately, by intercutting shots of Wayne & company-studio-lighted in uniforms that don't match those of the real invaders-Director Allan Dwan gets a patchwork that suggests a series of trailers intruding on some bang-up newsreel footage...
Sincere Encyclopedia. Working largely from diaries and letters, Author Tharp fills the married lives of Sophia Hawthorne and Mary Mann with the kind of domestic detail that might warm the hearts of any sewing circle. But whenever she leaves them to catch up with Lizzie's latest doings, The Peabody Sisters begins to hum with good works and intellectual vibrations. Liz was a prodigious worker who was seldom paid for her effort. For a time, she was William Ellery Channing's secretary, but the great preacher apparently never thought to pay her except in inspiration. The Dial, which...
...this spring's discussions, however, the U.S. may have to change its position, and accept modification of the U.N. plan. Russia now has the bomb; postponement of control merely allows the USSR to catch up with our bomb production. Also, there has been pressure from Western bloc nations, who fear atomic war with Russia, for some sort of control soon. Off the record, U.S. delegates in the UN have already stated that they may accept several modification: 1) allocation of production by bi-lateral treaties between the Commission and nations; 2) punishment to be left to the countries in which...
...before he left for Washington, the President did his best to catch up on his visiting. He chatted with Missouri's Governor Forrest Smith and entertained a group of other political friends with a chile-con-carne feast in the hotel penthouse. That evening he got into a tuxedo and escorted Mrs. Truman and Margaret to dinner and an evening reception. The host: suave, bald Blevins Davis, 46, onetime Independence schoolteacher who became a theatrical producer, married aged Heiress Margaret Sawyer Hill (a daughter-in-law of Rail Tycoon James J. Hill) in 1946 and inherited her fortune when...
...some communities in San Diego County showed a high polio rate among the people who came into contact with polio victims, others did not. Nonetheless, the doctors recommended more thorough isolation and quarantine. That was all they could offer. Otherwise, the old questions of how, when and where people catch polio remained a mystery...