Word: bazooka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before he had well warmed Lever Brothers' presidential chair (TIME, June 10), Charles ("Chuck") Luckman sat down hard on the firm's $7,274,503 radio budget. Off the air went Lifebuoy's "Bazooka Bob" Burns and Rinso's soft-soap opera, Big Sister. Last week Luckman made an economy-size substitution: Fighting Senator, a sort of Lone Ranger with social significance...
...world less likely to be moved by "one impulse from a vernal wood" than by a burst from a bazooka, Author Laurence Housman (Victoria Regina) has seen fit to issue a new selection of the poems of William Wordsworth...
...tankman tells of his disgust when his tank runs out of gas, a Canadian describes the hideous fighting around Caen, a Royal Navy man admits his road sickness when his assault craft is trucked cross-country to the Rhine, a Negro cook tells how he learned to fire a bazooka at Bastogne, a primly petulant American supply officer tells of "a very humiliating experience" when Patton's men kept running off the edge of all available maps (and adds that he will be glad to get back to the Library of Congress, where maps have some permanence...
GORDON FLINT Los Angeles tj Simple. The bazooka-like blast blows over his shoulder...
...Charlie Oliver spoiled his record. He saw a small cave far up the opposite cliff, fired twice and missed both times. That brought his day's score down to 28 hits in 30 shots. When he reached the dam Charlie said that next time he wanted a bazooka with a sight...