Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that without some of the bases which the British last week placed at U. S. disposal, no enemy could successfully invade the U. S. from the Atlantic. Getting the bases means to the U. S. much the same thing as six inches' extra reach would mean to a boxer: they make it possible to keep an enemy from getting in close where he could do much damage...
...eastern campaign was being run from the committee's Manhattan office; its campaign manager was wiry, 4 2-year-old Sam Pry or Jr., Connecticut State boss, ex-lightweight boxer, businessman, big-game hunter. In his office Mr. Pryor scowled, mugged, chewed his pipe, sweated, conferred with waves of visitors, planned a political safari. Said Mr. Pryor last week, giving the impression of a man waiting for the signal to set off a howitzer: "Wait until after September 15." Strictly amateur, the Associated Willkie Clubs, whooped up by 28-year-old Lawyer Oren Root Jr., were under full steam...
MAYHEM IN B-FiAT-Elliot Paul-Random House ($2). Moritz the miraculous Boxer (a dog) makes his debut with the familiar cast of Homer Evans, detective, dead-eye Miriam, Inspector Fremont and his dusky Hydrangea, Hjalmar Jansen the crockery smasher, the Singe, Godo the Whack, et al., roister-doistering from Paris to Rouen and back by water, land and haystack. Funniest murder story yet from veteran Mr. Paul, whose higher-browed books include The Life & Death of a Spanish Town...
When the recess was over, the Blue Army went after the invader like a winning boxer out of his corner. Through the chilly night (the temperature got down to 41°) engineers hurried pontoon bridges across the Raquette. Before dawn, while the bridges were still abuilding, infantrymen paddled across in assault boats, and rifle fire bit the dark. Again Hugh Drum's fast-moving motorized column, riding a motley assortment of green, red and white trucks, turned up on the Blacks' south flank. By noon the Blues' artillery had crossed the Raquette behind the infantry. With pleased...
...second son of America's philoprogenitive Ambassador to Britain, Joseph P. Kennedy. Its purpose is to arouse Americans 1) to the need of preparing for war in time of peace; 2) to the necessity of preparing for war as if they mean to fight. Says Author Kennedy: "A boxer cannot work himself into proper psychological and physical condition for a fight that he seriously believes will never come off." His plan for conditioning potential U. S. fighters is to show them step by step how England's failure to take war seriously from 1933 to 1939 brought...