Word: foiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week came old Vienna's turn on the Nazi torture rack. The Germans had willed that the city of 2,000,000 Austrians should die as Budapest had died - slowly, to gain a little more time for Naziism. But this week it seemed that the Red Army would foil that murder by swift conquest. Vienna might escape death, though it would be gravely wounded...
Bing suffers in this film Bob Hope did in "The princess and The Pirate." Together, the two are comedians separately, Bob is a comic without a foil and Bing a straight man struggling to be funny. Except for his painful parody of Frank Sinatra, Bing's singing is regular Crosby stuff and good if you like...
...gambling everything, but already in this battle your gallantry has done much to foil his plans. In the face of your proven bravery and fortitude, he will completely fail...
...hunt lions which are found to be only too real when a circus big cat escapes and holes up in the Baxter cellar. They aid Atlas the Mental Giant in a staggering plan to divide up the postwar world ("xVrP2+a" ∆x2y >13 It comes out wrong"). They foil black-market desperados through O'Malley's pretended attempt to repair the carburetor of the getaway...
Over southeast England civilians were puzzled by long thin strips of paperbacked, shiny foil, which fell from German planes and twisted slowly earthward. Reportedly tin foil, first dropped by the British on European raids, embarrasses, plays hob with radar readings and night fighters' detection devices. The British have a name for the strips: "flutterers...