Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Placed its first order for medium tanks since World War II: 500 of an "improved" model said to have greater firepower than the Patton M-46, to be built by the American Locomotive Co. of Schenectady "at the earliest possible date...
...power was mobility. In the amphibious campaigns of World War II the U.S. had developed with stunning success the techniques of transporting power by sea. Those techniques were by no means obsolete, but they were faced with a formidable new obstacle. Amphibious landings on the World War II model required vast supply dumps in ports or beachheads which would present an irresistible target to an enemy with the atomic bomb. Said General Omar Bradley, not long ago: "The atomic bomb, properly delivered, almost precludes . . . another amphibious operation like the one in Normandy...
Some vagrant amusement is provided by Actor Webb's impersonation of a strong, silent westerner patterned after Gary Cooper, and by Jack La Rue's bit as a movie star who fancies himself the living model of the tough, coin-flipping gangster he plays on the screen. They do nothing to repair the picture's ingrained faults. As Director Seaton himself demonstrated in Miracle on 34th Street, the supernatural elements of a fantasy are best played off against the familiar realities of an everyday world. Instead, the coy hocus-pocus of For Heaven's Sake takes...
...that he was capable of a change of pace. Sticking to his promise to ditch his ubiquitous, ten-novel hero, Lanny Budd, he wrote Another Pamela; or, Virtue Still Rewarded, a sly gibe at rich, talky parlor liberals seen through the wide eyes of an ingenuous housemaid. His literary model: 18th Century Novelist Samuel Richardson's famed Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded...
...Erector series has a new model with 35 lbs. of parts and a price tag of $50,000 which can, with encouragement, be coaxed into a walking giant who is ordinarily cheerfully disposed...