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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians also took strategic cities (Abganerovo and Kalach, on the Don) and-most important of all-cut both railroad lines used by the Germans to supply their army at Stalingrad. The ends of two Russian spearheads were less than 50 miles apart. If Marshal Timoshenko drew them together, the entire German siege force at Stalingrad might be trapped...
Provocative, unusual, but often unsatisfying, The Skin of Our Teeth dolls up its theme rather than dramatizes it. The fourth dimension somehow stays apart from the other three. Hocus-pocus and moral never quite blend. But the hocus-pocus-with superbly vivacious Actress Bankhead handing most of it out-is often extremely funny. "I hate this play," she suddenly confides. "That's the worst line I've ever had to say on any stage," she complains wearily; but she never spoke one better...
Global war no longer meant merely scattering troops to the ends of the earth; it now meant fighting bitter, agonizing battles 14,000 miles apart against full enemy forces. This was it: meeting the enemy face to face, ship for ship, tank for tank, plane for plane-and now, for a change, winning, at least sometimes...
...wants. This man taps the next shoulder in the silent grapevine to the wanted worker. Then the foreman wigwags his instructions: A clenched fist pulled down above his head means drill press. Palms close together in front mean to the mute that his measurements are too short. Palms apart: he has erred in the opposite direction. The mutes need no bells to warn them of overhead crane and boom movements. They watch moving shadows...
...This does not promote discipline among monkeys. Bands of them often meet trains at stations, looting food and other articles of interest to monkeys. Lucknow University recently complained that in the chemistry laboratory a girl student had been bitten by a monkey. Wrote a Lucknow citizen to city authorities: "Apart from the damage monkeys cause to my garden, one attacked a small child of one of my servants and tore from its nose the nose ring." Said Dr. E. A. Douglas of Lucknow's Lady Kinnaird Hospital: "For four days in succession our hospital has been plunged in darkness...