Word: glides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Germans by the tens of thousands had learned to glide. Versailles had denied them, military planes-but not gliders. The invasion of Crete, 22 years later, paid off Versailles' thinking. Planes towed gliderfuls of soldiers to points a few miles off the Cretan coast, then cut them loose...
...only does Malta straddle the Axis supply route to Libya; it also threatens the left flank of any Axis drive along the African coast toward Egypt. Submarines glide in & out of the harbor at Valletta. The dockyard repairs surface ships up to cruiser size. Bombers and fighters come out of hiding in hangars dug deep in the limestone and take off from rocky fields in the hills. The British believe that Malta's concentration of anti-aircraft guns is the heaviest in the world, not even excepting Moscow...
...ballroom dance was introduced at a dancing masters' convention in Rochester, N.Y.: the MacArthur Glide...
...looking refugee while he's at it, and winds up by doing his bit for national defense. Conrad Veidt is adequately sinister as the Nazi leader, but it's Peter Lorre who rings the bell again as the screen's number one menace. Without saying much, he manages to glide on and off the scene with a minimum of effort and a maximum of good solid horror...
...Leland Ford. He isn't, either, cried California's Jerry Voorhis. This hue & cry flushed another playmate-protégé from OCD's covert: one Mayris Chaney, a toothsome blonde dancer who in 1938 had made up a dance which she gratefully called the "Eleanor Glide." Miss Chaney was in charge of the children's section of OCD's physical fitness division. Salary: $4,600 a year...