Word: half-dozen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Soviet of the U.S.S.R. assembled amid all the panoply and portent of a Communist coronation. Kleig lights blazed down from the Corinthian capitals of St. Andrew's Hall; diplomats and newsmen packed the galleries, photographers jammed the aisles. At one minute past 5 o'clock, the top half-dozen Communist bosses entered from the side, led by bald Nikita Khrushchev with his two Orders of Lenin gleaming from his dark lapel. Joining Russian-fashion in the applause for themselves, the stubby commissars made their way to the front seats on the platform...
...Force Lieut. Colonel Howard McClellan (logging flying hours with Air Force permission), a West German businessman and his wife, and 30 Koreans, including the chief information officer of the Korean air force, an energetic, Communist-investigating member of the Korean National Assembly, and, police at Pusan theorized, some half-dozen North Korean agents...
Ordet (Palladium; Kingsley International) is that rarest of delights for the fastidious eye, a film by Carl Dreyer. Dreyer, 68, is a Dane who has made his living as a newsman and his reputation as a cinematic creator on the strength of a half-dozen pictures that few people have seen. Only two have been generally noticed in the U.S. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) was considered by most critics "an experimental film," but it has since served serious moviemakers as an invaluable primer on the uses of the closeup. Day of Wrath (1948) was a tenebrous expatiation...
...admitted to very high hopes for his high-jumpers and weight-men, especially. John deKiewiet is the best of a half-dozen jumping prospects...
...rooms where a new Porsche hardtop convertible, a new face-lifted Mercedes, Opels, Volkswagens and other German-made regular cars were on display. They finally came to a halt and milled around in the pavilion where midget-auto makers, some of them motorcycle manufacturers, were showing a half-dozen new models added to the score they brought out last year. Among the new bug-sized eye-catchers...