Word: gasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scratch who has the picture's last word. Perched on a rail fence, full of the peach pie which Ma Stone baked especially for the victorious orator, he thumbs jauntily through his address book for a fresh victim. And the person he picks makes any audience gasp...
...Quiet Flows the Don (TIME, July 2, 1934) Sholokhov marshaled a big cast of Cossacks through the vicissitudes of war and revolution, left them at the brink of civil war. In this, its 777-page sequel, he carries them through that war to its last exhausted gasp in the Bolshevik triumph...
...most significant new line announced last week was a 250-mile short cut from Portland (Me.) to Montreal. Standard of New Jersey has already ordered the tubing, and expects to finish the job in less than eight months. It will replace the long tanker haul around the Gaspé and up the St. Lawrence to Canada's chief distributing point. Its significance: the transport problem is a hemispheric problem, and its solution must see that the U.S.'s neighbors are served...
...Tennessee Valley Authority, affecting an area as large as England, with an amount of architectural structure that would have made a Roman emperor gasp, is a whopper. Like many a gigantic monument of the past (Egypt's Pyramids, Rome's Forum, China's Great Wall), TVA is built for use as well as looks. Like them, it will go down as one of the most permanent achievements of its civilization, may even remain a landmark long after its usefulness is over...
...hurries them through the five-month training course at Randolph and Kelly Fields in Texas. Along with the studious documentation of a trainee's tribulations are funny and tense shots of the first shaky hours in the air, spectacular panoramas of scores of planes in formation, a gasp-making exhibition of hedgehopping over the Texas countryside. And after graduation there is a mock night air raid on Los Angeles photographed both from the ground, where the stabbing searchlights may remind Californians of a market opening, and the inside of a B-17 (Flying Fortress) bomber, where cinemaudiences...