Word: crowbar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like many another Berliner, 52-year-old Walter was hungry. So were his wife, his bedridden mother and his 4½-year-old son. When plump little Kasha came trotting by one day, Walter decided to bash her on the head with a crowbar. When Betty's German gardener found Kasha's body in the back of Walter's shop, he notified the MPs. Kasha died without going to the stewpot, but Walter landed in jail nonetheless. Ten days later a military court found him guilty and sentenced him to one month in prison. But the court...
Despite the testimony of scientists that the strength of Kenneth McKellar is insignificant compared to that of the atom bomb, the Senator from Tennessee has lately been experiencing delusions of grandeur, and is prepared to display his vocal brawn in an attempt to twist fissionable uranium into a political crowbar. Contesting the appointment of David E. Lilienthal as Chairman of the new Atomic Energy Commission, McKellar is reviving an old political battle as significant to the problem of peacetime atomicenergy development as an Ozark blood-fend...
...county trustee (for eight years), and then as just a plain political boss, he slugged and beat and charmed his way to power. Always, he fought the "interests." When the Frisco and N.C. & St.L. railroads failed to agree with his interpretation of their franchises, he marched out with a crowbar, tore up their tracks, and stationed police over his handiwork...
...veteran Eighth Army against the very face of the Matmatas. The khamsin, the hot African wind, filled the air with the sands of the Sahara. Through the thick of it roared his planes. The mountains thundered and echoed with his artillery barrage. His infantrymen, like the point of a crowbar, jabbed into Rommel's suddenly faltering defenses. Montgomery's armor poured through, levering the crack until it was a wide and shattered hole. The Mareth Line, southern bulwark of the whole Axis position in Tunisia, collapsed. This week Rommel retreated...
Beardsley Ruml set out to crowbar the biggest stumbling block now in the way of his plan: the plausible-sounding objection that the Treasury would "lose" a year's income if a year's taxes were "forgiven." Not so, said Businessman-Banker Ruml in a letter to Kansas Congressman Frank Carlson: the Treasury would, if anything, collect more money with pay-as-you-go than without it. The Ruml reasoning...