Word: cellarer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the time they meet in the theater's bomb cellar during an alert, Rosalind's affair with her flyer is beset by the uncertainties, urgencies and misunderstandings of war, and by the jealousy of a young 4-F dancer (Marc Platt) whom she has coached to a featured spot in the show. But in the end the flyer proves faithful (he was away on a secret mission), the young dancer dies in a bombing, and Rosalind carries on with the show while her new husband goes off to the wars again...
...NROTC was yesterday's victim, succumbing to a 28 to 23 licking, while Baker led Standish in Friday's 31 to 29 conquest of Lowell. The Bellboy outfit, runner-up in the first tournament, has failed to win in two starts, and now resides in the league's cellar...
...beldams of yesteryear who gave onions and garlic to stave off typhus, let pennies grow green in the cellar for use on cuts, and put moldy bread on wounds had the right idea, though their practice was often fatal. For, some of their remedies contained antibiotics,* the natural bacteria-fighting substances produced by living organisms...
...Marcourt-just across the river-German soldiers rounded up all the young girls and drove them like cows from soldier billet to soldier billet where they were forced to service the troops. One man-the speaker's brother-in-law-hid his two daughters in the cellar and covered them over with blankets. When the Germans tore him out of the cellar, he called out to his daughters, 'Save yourselves!' and the daughters ran out. The Germans shot him dead in cold blood outside the church. We saw the two daughters. One was about 16, the other...
...defenders had the advantage of fighting from old houses with thick stone walls. Antitank guns were hidden in gateways and cellar windows. Entrances, street intersections, bridges were all mined. The Russians concentrated on taking corner buildings, setting up. a sweeping fire along the streets and leapfrogging to another corner building...