Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then, to wind up the social news at the moment, there tentatively will be a formal on the weekend of 24 June, which is the weekend after the finals and 2 days before the happy date (we hope) we will drop the anchor and pick up that bar. Again--more on that later...
...ship moored near by jumped onto a wharf. Another tossed her anchor into her neighbor's rigging. Everything on the dock, including seven fire engines, disappeared. A mile away a householder saw every window in his home shatter at once, found a 28-lb. gold -bar (worth $27,700) on his veranda. An officer staggered, blackened and bleeding, into the Taj Mahal Hotel muttering, "the air-full of arms and legs and heads -horrible-horrible...
Despite loud wails from the steel industry that it is selling many basic products such as plates at less than cost, it managed to hold the line fairly well. U.S. Steel was off slightly, from $17,406,597 to $17,027,616. Bethlehem, with its profitable shipbuilding still an anchor to windward, managed to push up its net a little, to $6,432,538. Only Jones & Laughlin fell far behind, from...
Imperatives. Invasion chiefs will be limited by certain invasion imperatives. To land troops they need beaches (ruling out cliffs, bluffs and marshes). The beaches must be near or at invasion "musts": ports, which must be promptly taken to anchor the first links in the chain of supply. The ports must have roads and rails to extend the chain with the advance; and should be close to England...
...prolonged slapstick struggle with murderers aboard an old ship. And at one nightmarish juncture M.G.M.'s scripters manage to hang Skelton, Rags Ragland, Ann Rutherford and Jean Rogers, in a gently swinging human chain, from the top of an elevator shaft. High comic moment: Red Skelton, as anchor-man for this gibbering pendulum, decides to rest his hands by letting go and standing on the shoulders of Rags Ragland, who is desperately clinging to Skelton's ankles...