Word: straight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifteen per cent of undergraduates are concentrating in the field of government, which gives that field the lead over Economics in the popularity poll for the second straight year, the Committee on Electives disclosed Saturday. Government has 604 concentrators as against 499 specializing in Economics, according to the Committee's report...
Army, paced by winner Richard Shen, ran away with the race for the third straight year, placing seven men in the first 17 finishers, including three out of the first four...
...feet. He switched to its radio channel, told its pilot too to circle the field in the left-hand traffic pattern. He got no acknowledgment. As the transport began its final turn, the men in the tower saw a fearful sight-the fighter, wheels down, was streaking straight in for the same runway on which the DC-4 was about to settle down...
...gravity. Yet Soviet-bloc delegates insist blandly that it isn't so. At Lake Success last week, after weeks of tedious arguments, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky added a new twist to the choreography. He agreed that the rebels had received arms-but, he said, with a straight face, the arms had come from unnamed groups in France, Italy and Turkey, via "maritime channels...
...lines and the acting are what raises the picture above the level of all this tripe. Except for two or three lapses into straight slapstick and a somewhat corny climax, the dialogue is consistently sharp, unexpected, and often brilliant. Michael Wilding, as lord and footman, gets just the right blend of cynicism and playfulness, though his eyes do twinkle a bit too much on occasion, Anna Neagle is pleasantly attractive and eager in the female lead, and she also demonstrates that infuriating twinkle. Joshua, portrayed by Tom Walls is a marvelous English-gentleman type, both in word and deed...