Word: conrad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...address relating the climate of the Mediterranean Region to the present war, Dr. V. A. Conrad, Robert DeCiurcy Ward Research Associate in Climatology, discussed before an audience composed mainly of soldiers, sailors and WAVES the weather tendencies which gravely influence fighting taking place on the African battlegrounds...
...Nazis, in their recent campaign in Egypt, found the boiling days and freezing nights sufficient cause for conducting all their action at night in air-conditioned tanks, he stated. Also important is the ever-changing climate which makes any predictions hazardous. Dr. Conrad accompanied his lecture with slides of the Mediterranean region...
Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt, Claude Rains; TIME...
Bannon becomes suspicious of a Danish square-rigger, Den Magre Kvind. His suspicions mount when the Daniel finds, in an open boat, three slaughtered Danes whom Holger mourns too loudly and whom Conrad deduces, from their pallor and their oily hands, to be U-boat engineers executed for a breach of discipline. The square-rigger has been shelled into half-ruin and her Captain Skalder, whose curses fall "like bars of iron" through his great red block of beard, says he is bound for Halifax with a cargo of rum. But Bannon notices that the shell wounds were made with...
Snooping, he learns that the cargo is a good hundred torpedoes, enough mines to drive a hole through the seabottom. The Gaunt Woman is a U-boat supply ship, "the bitch at whose dugs they must feed or starve." With the aid of Conrad and Margaret MacLean ("a strapping girl, done up in seagoing style"), Bannon sets about forcing the devils to eat their own brimstone. He succeeds in making the Gaunt Woman one gigantic time bomb for the ruin of her U-boat offspring. As she blows, Bannon lifts "his clenched hands in a gesture of malediction," says...