Word: bored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy had expected a carrier task force battle ever since the Solomons invasion began. Not until last week, almost seven weeks after the Wasp had been sunk by submarines, did it come. A great Jap naval force in two sections, including at least three aircraft carriers, bore down from the northeast. Vice Admiral William Frederick ("Bull") Halsey Jr., the South Pacific's new commander, had his carrier force ready to battle Jap carriers for the third time in six months. Once again the battle was chiefly between planes and ships; no major surface engagement was reported by the Navy...
Jugged-Celebrity-of-the-Week: lithe, blonde Cinemactress Frances Farmer, arrested for drunken driving. At the station house she demurely gave her age as 15. The officer made it 29 (correct). She told police: "You bore me." The bored police made no published retort...
Paul Brown's unique farm system bore fruit. For eight years in a row the Massillon Tigers won the Ohio scholastic football championship. They lost only eight games out of 88, turned out so many players who later became big-time college stars that Massillon became a hangout for college scouts. Before Brown's regime, 3,000 was a big crowd for a Massillon High School game. The year he left, the school owned a $300,000 stadium (with enough seats for nearly every man, woman & child in the town), supported a snazzy 64-piece band (with drum...
...Engineering Board, which tackles the larger problems of methods and materials. To save welding, Fisher engineers worked out a system for bending tank armor on the presses that used to stamp out auto bodies, promptly offered it to Chrysler and Ford. G.M. had to make its own machines to bore turrets, so it made some for Ford and Chrysler too. Ford developed a new, better compound for molding ignition parts, which Pratt & Whitney now uses. "Liquid forging," a Ford casting method, releases forging equipment for other work, saves large amounts of metal...
Author Heym approves Dr. Wallerstein's findings: that all men are not heroes in the face of death. When Commissioner Reinhardt's scheme finally won out and the hostages were shot, only burly, talkative, astute Hostage Janoshik left a noble record-which bore fruit in the blowing up of three ammunition barges on the morning of the execution...