Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Shaped by less adroit hands, the movie's inevitable love interest might have proved a stumbling block; instead, it gives the story a lift. One of Gwenn's friendly neighbors, U.N. Translator Dorothy McGuire, inadvertently receives and passes some of the queer, thus catches the eye of T-man Burt Lancaster. Eager to prolong his attentions, she reads up on counterfeiting and begins spouting counterfeiter's argot. This maneuver sets up a clever scene in which Lancaster gives her a whispered grilling at a nightclub table while wandering violinists serenade them with romantic mood music. The romance...
...Landing Ship-Tank) has bow doors and beaching ramp, elevators to lift tanks or other cargo from the hold to the main level. Length: 328 feet (World War II models) or 382 feet (postwar models...
Silting Tight. We reached the burning British consulate and established a CP in a house on the hill just below it. The smoke and dust were beginning to lift from Inchon's waterfront area. The fighting was sporadic. One patrol brought in a rather staggering prize: a whole platoon, led by its lieutenant, from the third battalion of the 26th North Korean regiment, the outfit defending Inchon. The patrol had moved in on the platoon, which gave up without a fight. The Korean lieutenant, eager to be cooperative, told Jaskilka that much of his battalion had been killed...
...American reporters who would like to know what his breeding plans are for Whirlaway, Boussac will politely lift his hat, smilingly extend his hand in greeting. A subaltern will whisper, "M. Boussac thinks you have just paid him a compliment." No matter how well the reporter speaks French, the interview is closed. Four or five years hence, M. Boussac may supply the answer on French, British and possibly U.S. racetracks...
When Lord Beaverbrook made greying, ascetic-looking Herbert Gunn the editor of his London Evening Standard in 1945, his instructions were brief: jack up the circulation, lift it from 600,000 to at least 1,000,000. An eager Beaverman for 15 years, Editor Gunn brightened up the Standard with new features, improved the news coverage, made the paper more talked about...