Word: ramrodding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Where is my home? Where is my home?" they sang. (The watching crowd bowed their heads; many wept.) "Fair Bohemia is my home! Fair Bohemia is my home!" (The police stood ramrod still; one reporter noticed several of the policemen weeping too.) "Thunders crashing wild, over Tatras' dark main...
Comfortable Berth. Ramrod-straight and hickory-tough at 63, Duke Sam thinks that hard work and perseverance are often a hindrance to success; hard workers may be too busy to meet the right people. He feels that if he had not been captain of the Yale '07 football team, he would not have met Templeton Crocker (Yale '08), who introduced him to his grandfather, California Banker William H. Crocker. Young Sam was hired to liquidate Crocker's corporate catchall which owned, among other things, the Monterey Peninsula. While liquidating it, young Morse formed a San Francisco syndicate...
...Mexico City, an employer got a union's permission last week to fire 5,000 of its 23,000 members. The employer was ramrod-backed Antonio Bermúdez, boss of Pemex, Mexico's Government oil monopoly. The union was the Mexican Petroleum Workers' Syndicate, until recently one of the fastest-striking labor organizations in Mexico...
...ripple ran through the throngs lining the route from Waterloo Station. But it was only Queen Mary, sedate and ramrod-backed, in her maroon Daimler. The real cheers came half an hour later, when six prancing white police horses stepped along the broad, sanded Mall leading a shining, black state landau with scarlet-coated outriders. In the carriage, her pink ostrich feathers bobbing gaily, sat the Queen, King George beside her, in naval blues; and opposite their parents, riding backwards, the Princesses. As they drove past the cheering crowds, Margaret couldn't resist craning round once...
...landscapes and shacks have a remoteness seldom appreciated in films; it has even occurred to someone that the noise of blowing leaves is pleasant. Such careful details help bring the audience deeper into the country. Ramrod is decently made, nice to look at, and at times exciting. Unluckily the story is long, complicated and not, on the whole, worth the care that has been lavished...