Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cost Italy-apart from loss of her colonial empire-destruction of her towns, annihilation of her industries, of her merchant navy, of her railway network and, lastly, invasion of her own soil. One cannot ask the people to continue to fight when all legitimate hope-I do not say of victory, but even of resistance-has vanished...
...Apart from any predetermined strategy, a secure Allied position in Italy must eventually make the lower Balkans untenable for the Germans. In southern Italy, the Allies have already outflanked the Germans in the southern Balkans and destroyed most of Crete's value as a base guarding the Mediterranean approaches. Crete was formidable when it lay between the Allies in North Africa and the Germans in southeastern Europe. Now the Allies are behind Crete. Military men in Cairo expect that island, once a symbol of German triumph and might, to fall "like a ripe apple...
...sense of timing. Says Hope: "I was born with timing and coordination." Artistically he was born with little else-no special trick of speech, gift of pantomime, sense of character. Quite inartistically, indeed, he was born with a kind of strenuous averageness-which paradoxically managed to set him apart...
...every broadcast, Hope's scripters scout for atmosphere, poke into the files for gags that can be retrimmed, dream up new ones. Then they put their heads and hoards together, producing a script that Hope proceeds to tear apart-cutting, sharpening, fitting to character. Finally, before the Tuesday night broadcast (NBC -10 p.m. E.W.T.), there is a Sunday night sealed-in-the-studio tryout at which the audience acts as blue pencil and Hope runs hog-wild...
Past North Philadelphia station, the Pennsylvania Railroad's crack Congressional (three and a half hours from Washington to Manhattan) thundered toward New York City. Three miles later, still inside Philadelphia's crowded city limits, it cracked apart in one of the most spectacular wrecks in U.S. railroad history...