Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Lately this situation has improved a little, as the Philippine army ground forces have gradually taken over the campaign from the mistrusted, abusive Philippine constabulary. If this trend continues, the Huks will be finished, for they cannot live without the aid-voluntary or forced-of the people in the countryside. In this sense, the Huk war is a struggle for the confidence of thousands of peasants and rural workers who in their underpaid, underprivileged past have never been given much reason for confidence. Who is winning this struggle now? Maybe a certain Colonel Abay knows a little of the answer...
...that point eight FBI agents, who had been waiting outside, went into action. There was a spray of gunfire; Wayne Long fired back, injuring one of the FBI men. Then Long himself, after dashing for a block, fell to the ground wounded...
Like Hot Coals. For most people, half the pleasure in looking at pictures is in recognizing what they see. Modern artists often refuse them that pleasure. But there are compensations. In breaking new ground for art, the moderns have also found new means of making art enjoyable. Such men as Dufy, Chagall and Matisse, for example, have applied their free-wheeling philosophy primarily to color, laying it on canvas in broad, brilliant, arbitrary splashes, and raising it to an intensity never before equaled in Western painting. Rouault trowels on his colors like hot coals, achieving the richness and emotional impact...
With another gesture from Lifar, the helicopters hoisted themselves 30 feet into the air. As he paddled frantically from the ground, the giant pinwheels sashayed around each other with all the grace of circus elephants. So far, only one thing had gone wrong. Lifar had planned to have his helicopters dance to The Beautiful Blue Danube and a Berlioz march; somebody had forgotten to switch on the loudspeakers...
Vadis is a project no U.S. movie company has ever before attempted. After figuring the odds, MGM's Louis B. Mayer anted up $6,000,000, the biggest budget in movie history, and dispatched ace Production Man Henry Henigson to Rome with orders to prepare the ground...