When I was a child, my mother used to tell me it was a teeter-totter. You know, the tilted plank a child plays on.
11 seconds sound clip from the Hondo (1953) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:58:22 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Angie, there's something I've got to tell you. I tried to tell you. And it isn't going to be easy.
- Just look at the moon. How odd it looks in this quarter.
- I suppose the Indians have a word for it.
- Yeah, bermarga. It's the planting moon. Indians won't plant their corn unless the moon's like that.
- You liked living with the Apache, didn't you?
- Angie, I've just got to tell you this.
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