Word: bout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Americans broke down one stubborn fortress, secured a minor port. Stiff-backed Colonel Andreas von Auloch, the "madman of Saint-Malo," finally surrendered. Begrimed (but with boots shining), proud of their stand (but reeling after a farewell bout with the bottle), the Germans gave up after eleven days of pounding. Before they marched out of their tunneled redoubt the Germans freed seven U.S. prisoners. The Americans had been treated well, had scarcely noticed the air bombardments in the four-story-deep granite fortress...
...Private Sidney ("Beau Jack") Walker, 23, Fort Benning, Ga.; his first fight since entering the Army ten weeks ago; by defeating Lightweight Champion Private Bob Montgomery of Keesler Field, Miss., in a ten-round, nontitle bout at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Gate receipts: $35,864,900 in War Bonds. The 14-month-old feud now stands at two victories for Jack, two for Montgomery...
...weak and threadbare plot revolves around Dr. Wassell's love for an American nurse played by Laraine Day. During one of the frequent flashbacks, one learns that he has run out on the beautiful nurse just as he was bout to propose to her, because of a telegram telling him that another researcher has already found the answer to his quest. It is not until the end of the movie, when Dr. Cooper, or Wassell, has led a band of wounded men through air raids, battles and stormy seas to safety in Australia, that he is reunited with his bride...
When WPBoss Donald Nelson gets back to his desk, perhaps this week, he faces a tougher fight than his successful bout with pneumonia. While he was abed his balky WPB co-workers had shelved what is probably the most important order Nelson had ever issued: an order that would begin the reconversion of U.S. war plants in an orderly...
...Moscow. There she falls in love with an impassioned young shepherd (Vladimir Zeldin) from the mountains of far-southern Russia. He is proud as a kulak because of his prize sheep. Boy & girl sing at each other enthusiastically, retire to their respective corners of Russia eager for a return bout next summer. In dead of winter, in the foggy mountain rains, the shepherd rescues three lost ladylike ewes from three wolves; his sweetheart delivers her favorite sow of 19 pigs. When not engaged in animal husbandry, the lovers think about each other, with music. Distance and language differences lead...