Word: cramming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political climate changed in Venezuela and Betancourt returned to organize A.D. Four years later he and his party joined with a group of young army officers to overthrow President Isaias Medina Angarita. In power as provisional President, Betancourt overzealously tried to cram decades of reform and development into two brief years, thereby built a wall of resentment. He presided over the election that put A.D.'s Rómulo Gallegos, a noted novelist, into the presidency in 1948. Reports that A.D. planned to de-emphasize army influence by arming an irregular band of stalwarts helped turn the military against...
...particular peeve is that science students must cram themselves with a classical language. "I'm not saying there aren't minds that don't expand with the classics," he said. "But all real advances in knowledge come from people who are doing what they like to do. We all know the effect on children of compulsory spinach and compulsory rhubarb; it's the same with compulsory learning. They say, 'It's spinach and to hell with...
...Birmingham's white country people, teeming in from piney woods to steel mills, view desegregation less as an abstract threat to be fended off by lawyers than as a specific, bread-and-butter threat to jobs, promotions, family security. Says Bull Connor: "If the North keeps trying to cram this thing down our throats, there's going to be bloodshed...
...high school chum of Ike's back in Abilene, Swede spent many an hour at the Belle Springs Creamery playing penny-ante poker with Night Foreman Eisenhower during the long, lonely night shift. It was Hazlett who persuaded Ike to try for a military career, helped him cram for his Annapolis-West Point competitive exam. (Ike went to West Point because he was too old for Annapolis.) At his old friend's funeral, the President clenched his face in an immobile mask to hold back tears. When taps died away, he stepped forward and gently kissed Hazlett...
...plot-derived from a 1957 novel, The Big War, by Anton Myrer-it is the usual panoramic, cram-it-all-in, move-over-Tolstoy sort of thing, with a plural hero (Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Bradford Dillman) who has any number of women (Dana Wynter, Hope Lange, Sheree North, France Nuyen) in his composite life. Nothing happens that has not happened a hundred times before in other war pictures-except perhaps an unusually large number of sincere but badly misdirected performances by promising young cinemactors. All of them, as Producer Jerry Wald proudly points out, have been carefully nurtured...