Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...chore at which panicky operators have kept him since the collapse of Port Arthur's United Grain Growers' elevator last September. Five days last week, he was underwater for an hour morning and afternoon on the elevator job. "To break the monotony," he passed up the sure-thing $150-a-day fee on two of those days to look for - and find - a 1,800-lb. anchor lost by the government ice breaker Alexander Henry last fall. That treasure made his Superior Diving & Salvaging Co. $650 richer...
...there, but her most charming proxy was doubtless little Princess Anne, 9, buffered from the very cold weather with a flannelette-lined bridesmaid's gown. At the reception, Anne, feeling quite grown up, sipped ginger ale from a bubbly glass while solemnly watching her elders downing the real thing...
...grim wisecracks, masking solitude and self-pity, kept pouring with the bourbon. The best thing about his funeral, said Carney, would be the hernia his best friend would get carrying the casket. He called the friend's wife, told her to caution her husband not to say "funeralwise" at the service. Falling to pieces, he asked the operator to try Dr. Albert Schweitzer in French Equatorial Africa to see if he would make a house call. Opening a phial of sleeping pills, he named each one as he swallowed it: Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel, Gretel, the Three Bears...
...Though a 1959 amendment sponsored by Williams theoretically limits crop loans to a maximum of $35,000 per farmer, Williams warned the Senate that he is skeptical about how much good the law will do, since it was badly weakened in final conferences. The only thing that will really do any good, said Williams, is to get rid of the price-support "monstrosity...
That night, sick of her senseless life and ready for anything, the wife takes a midnight stroll in her nightgown through moonlit meadows. She meets a young archaeologist (Jean-Marc Bory), a chance guest in the house. He kisses her. Suddenly, deliriously, they understand that "this is the real thing''-or so the narrator says. Les amoureux then go back to her room, and with the sound track blaring Brahms (a sextet, naturally) and the camera calmly watching almost everything that happens, they make passionate and explicitly French love 1) in her bed, 2) in the bathtub...