Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lost an able old White House lieutenant when dour, crafty Charles Michelson, who had taken the skin off scores of Republicans in ten years of speech-ghosting and column writing, decided to retire (at 74) as Democratic publicist...
...south, his force of 300,000 troops around Stalingrad were in danger of entrapment and annihilation. In the last ten days some 100,000 of his soldiers had been slain. A column that the Russians launched along the Stalingrad-Novoros-siisk railroad had traveled 90 miles by week's end, could become a threat to his armies in the northern Caucasus. Those armies had already been pushed back from Ordzhonikidze and the Grozny oilfields. Now they faced the danger of being cut off. A hole anywhere along the front-from the Caucasus to Leningrad-might open the dike...
...Daily Variety announced that the invasion of North Africa was "invaluably aided" by all the pre-war North African footage of the studios. The Reporter bannered the real credits: FILMS HEART OF FIGHTING FORCES. It backed up this cock-a-doodle-doo with a two-column deck...
...bridge at the time. When McCandless came to, he saw that he was "Sopus"—Navy for senior officer present. It was up to him to get the ship out. He got to his feet, took command of the ship, kept her proudly at the head of her column until the battle was over...
...ship got the works. The first attack came from on top. Sir, those boys were good. Our .50 calibers were hosing tracers into them and there was a helluva din. First thing I felt was an awful jolt on the control column. One of those German boys had plunked two cannon shells into the elevators and punched holes in the fabric big enough for a man to jump through. From then on the captain and I had to brace our feet against the column. That old ship wanted only to climb but we wanted to get down as fast...