Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...girl and the ruthless woman. In one scene, we see her primping like a vain child before her large oval mirror; in another, she is the inscrutable defendant sitting stiffly on a bench at her own nerve-racking trial. Could this girl have put arsenic in her lover's cocoa...
...peace talk was good for stocks, it was bad news for war-inflated commodities. At week's end grains, wool, hides and cocoa went tumbling in the futures market. So did cotton, which a few days earlier had reached its highest price (44.14? a Ib.) since the Civil War. The Dow-Jones futures index plunged 5.71 points, a record break for a single day, and lowest since...
When Meinel got his news, other astronomers swarmed in from all over the observatory. They congratulated him on a really important accomplishment, which opens a new branch of astrophysics by permitting a detailed study of material ejected by a typical star, the sun. They toasted him in hot cocoa. Then Astronomer Meinel, worn out with nervous excitement, went to bed with exhaustion and a virus infection...
Fortunately, Director Lean's sure technique keeps most of the picture crackling, and the Nicholas Phipps-Stanley Haynes script gives him plenty to work with. His camera angles make a pair of cocoa cups enormously intriguing, endow the villain's silver-knobbed cane with a menacing, meaningful life of its own. He cuts back & forth between the lovers and shots of a frenetic Scottish reel to give a seduction scene a surprisingly erotic effect. His trial sequence, neatly dovetailing flashbacks of testimony into the lawyers' summations, is a fresh, economical way to film courtroom action. Many...
Real rocket tests, such as last week's at Cocoa (see above) are expensive items in any nation's budget. The missile itself, including development cost, may represent many hundred thousand dollars. To follow its flight requires a network of observation posts with radar, telescopes, radio locators and other intricate instruments specially designed for the purpose...