Word: lines
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Loyalty to the group in these men was the last and most important line of defense . . . Even this . . . weakens with the passage of time...
Critics would be hard put to match the justice of that, or of Gris's conclusion: "No matter, after all, one must paint as one is. My spirit is too exact to dirty a blue or twist a straight line...
...last half century in sport, which names glittered brighter than all the rest? This week, after polling some 400 U.S. sportwriters and broadcasters, the Associated Press completed its line-up of the nonpareils and their runners...
...strong-arm mayor of a luckily fictitious California city, Gable is an ex-longshoreman who keeps political scamps in line by dumping them into the fish pond in front of city hall. Loretta Young is a prissily elegant mayor from Maine. The two meet at a San Francisco mayors' convention, go through a honky-tonk brawl, two arrests, some smooching in the fog, and, finally, a joint triumph of love and two-fisted political virtue...
...took Queen Victoria herself to show him where to draw the line in his publicity schemes. With no middleman to pave the way, Lipton wrote to the Queen in 1887: "I take the liberty of writing to inquire whether your most gracious Majesty would be pleased to accept of the largest cheese ever made [it was to weigh five tons] as a [Queen's Golden] Jubilee offering." A member of Victoria's household staff promptly replied, in effect, that...