Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...herself from anybody's plate that comes handy. In gossip-gathering she uses the same techniques. The men who run the studios and hand out the jobs read her faithfully and as faithfully react. (One screen writer who managed to get mentioned three times in Louella's column found himself abruptly raised from $500 a week...
Others had. Passionate Internationalist Edgar Ansel Mowrer, for instance, who last February had resigned from his job as deputy director of OWI to conduct an uninhibited newspaper column on world affairs, submitted the hottest : "This Pravda piece means simply the breakdown of Anglo-American diplomacy." And the Moscow edict may indeed have been a unilateral P.S. to the Teheran communi...
...word "Poland" (see p. 18). They spoke, instead, of gains "in the direction of Sarny." On the pre-1939 map, Sarny lay deep within Poland's Pripet Marshes, 35 miles beyond the Russian frontier. By week's end a swift-moving (150 miles in a fortnight) column of General Nikolai Vatutin's First Ukrainian Army stood almost at the city's gates. In a region of few roads, many forests and lakes, Sarny is a traffic hub. Through it passes a main north-south railway; without it, the Wehrmacht's forces in Poland would...
...lost three men dead, buried eleven Japs, seized the settlement's grass huts, coconut groves, rubber plantations (the first recovered from the Japs), an unused air strip. Then they fanned out, trapping Jap patrols who were skirmishing with Australians some 60 miles down the coast. With an Australian column poised inland in the Ramu Valley, they set up a two-pronged threat to Madang, the next important Jap base northwest of Finsch-haven. One day last week General MacArthur's fliers plastered the Madang area with 243 tons of high explosive. The next Allied landing might strike that...
...could see the point, even when it was made by an unreconstructed Communist. Russia was their traditional protector, their only one if Germany should lose the war. Bulgaria could give her material aid: in Rumanian-held Bessarabia, now in the path of the Red Army, was a potential fifth column of over 150,000 Bulgars; in Yugoslavian Macedonia, Bulgarian troops were doing German guard duty against pro-Russian Marshal Tito's Partisans (some Bulgars had already joined his ranks...