Word: screening
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...later explained that the line was only a screen of "isolated outposts" which could be abandoned if necessary. South Korean units were already fighting regrouped North Koreans below the 38th parallel. Tokyo said it was a "misnomer" to call such North Koreans guerrillas-they were organized enemy spearheads...
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...
...Jack Martin stepped into a fast pass from Co-Captain Jack Garrity and lined a 50-feet screen shot past Crimson goalie Brad Richardson. Richardson played well, stopping 29 drives, many of them close in. The only goal which was at all his fault was the tying point, scored by Dick Kelley at 5:58 after Richardson failed to clear on Garrity's drive...
...sign outside of Station Seven said "Neuro-Psychiatrist." I sat down on a rough wooden bench beside some more screens, then someone said "next man" and I walked around the screen and sat down opposite the psychiatrist. He asked me my name, address, and field of concentration, and what I had done the previous summer. Then he checked off some more spaces on the sheet and said "fine, fine." I heard him say "next man" as I moved up to Station Eight...
Station Eight drew and tested blood. There were two men behind its screen, and they chanted "next victim" at frequent intervals. There were only a few more spaces on my sheet now; one of the men filled them in and pointed to a desk beneath a window with a line of men standing in front of it. The line moved quickly; I was soon at the desk...