Word: bazooka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hilarious version of the early groping talkies: a pompous baritone named "Donald Ronald" who happily mouths "Honeybunch, you drive me frantic with your smiles," but utters only a half-Nelson eddy of sound. After more silent facial farces, Green joins Betty in loudly husking cornier Shubert operettas (The Baroness Bazooka). There is also a Reader's Digest book condensation that scrunches Gone with the Wind into 22 words...
...leaking!" Wine dripped onto the floor and Mrs. Biggs rushed over with more scotch tape. As he held the pipe, smiling embarrassedly, Mr. Flentrop suggested Hans who saved the dike or perhaps the harassed captain of a bazooka team. The wine was finally poured...
...Black Mac yielded 20 hard-core top EOKA leaders, four of them with prices of $14,000 on their heads (which the soldiers are ineligible to collect), 2,000 rounds of ammunition, scores of hand grenades and dozens of revolvers, half-a-dozen Thompson submachine guns and a 3.5 bazooka. The British had reason to congratulate them selves, and did. Said pink-cheeked, wax-mustached Brigadier J. A. Hopwood: "It was like a jolly big shoot, and my men acted as beaters...
Special Dedication. Even before LeMay finished testifying, the Administration brought up its big bazooka. Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, to fire a challenging round. His "best information," said Engine Charlie enigmatically at a news conference, was that the Russians are indeed producing more long-range bombers than the U.S., but "in itself that is not a very high rate either for us or for them." Speaking of Curt LeMay, he added: "A dedicated specialist usually gets pretty well sold on his particular part of the business. That is no criticism . . . but in my experience, if you added up the desires...
Died. Robin ("Bazooka Bob") Burns, 65, top-rank radio and film (The Arkansas Traveler, I'm from Missouri) comedian of the '30s and '40s; of cancer; in Encino, Calif...