Word: curtain
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...World War II was Winston Churchill. The only Allied leader with military experience in the field as well as experience in government, he was also a superb communicator. Perhaps his finest contribution was his matchless power as a speaker, e.g., his stunning statement at Fulton, Mo., about "the Iron Curtain" that Joseph Stalin was dropping across Eastern Europe, and the unforgettable, even more crucial speech he made before the expected Nazi invasion of Britain: "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight...
...Nothing says creepy like a Hitchcock movie, except perhaps the Hitchcock 100th-birthday edition of Clue or the commemorative Bates Motel shower curtain or robe. QVC's Hitchcock beanbag bear was scary in a whole other...
CHARLES BARKLEY Injury ends career a few months early, but classy farewell is curtain raiser...
...Enough." Cheri Leberknight, the alleged American spy, was apparently carrying several gadgets that could have been designed by Q himself. She allegedly carried several tools to ascertain whether she was under surveillance. Dartboard actually owns a similar tool called a radar detector. On the other side of the iron curtain, the Russian successor to the Soviet KGB proudly trumpeted its counterintelligence prowess to a prime-time Russian television audience...
...curtain goes up tonight...