Word: whole
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...despite efforts of a whole armada of U.S. and Canadian naval and air search units,* there was no sign of the other five airmen. A U.S. Coast Guard plane searching the island at week's end broadcast the national anthem and a message to the missing five: "Don't give up hope; we are still looking...
...Mission de Paris, has twice journeyed to Rome to discuss the Mission's work with the Pope. In his tiny, book-lined office last week, the abbe took the long view of his job. "Our work will not really take effect for perhaps 40 years," he said. "The whole world, in various ways, has wandered from the church. In France, workers imagine that there is an alliance between the church and capitalism, of which they have here witnessed the excesses and abuses. The church is wrongly identified with the middle classes, the bourgeoisie. This we must change ... I tell...
Safety Showers. The whole plant, even the lavatories, swarms with watchful Geiger counters. They are usually clicking phlegmatically, but they can roar a sudden warning if anything goes wrong. In each building is a place on the floor marked "shower." A worker who has spilled a dangerous substance on his clothes can dash to the shower and drench himself with life-saving water...
...occasion, Godfrey credits these young people with being the whole show. "I do nothing but introduce the talent," he will say modestly. "I try to stay out of it." More often, he fumes about them like a choleric parent: "I have so much trouble with these kids. They don't know when they're well off ... I only keep them in line because they're all scared...
...over a flighty, glamorous divorcee (Margaret Leighton). His devoted wife, played by Celia (Brief Encounter) Johnson, introduces them, goes conveniently off to her mother's place so they can fall in love, and then understandingly dispatches them on a tour of the Continent so they can get the whole ugly mess out of their systems. What drives Coward into the jitters and finally off a housetop is not guilt over his own infidelity-perish the thought-but a suspicious jealousy of his mistress...