Word: grandstanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flitted warily. Forced to retreat out of the plain before the superior fire of the Mark-IVs, our light Honey tanks had hidden in a draw. They now poured a hail of diagonal fire at the German tanks. An artillery observer, awed by the gun-tank battle and our grandstand seat far above it, murmured: "You'll never see anything like this again in 20 years...
...naked steel flank was cluttered with huts, tool houses and catwalks; the workmen called them "Normandieville." Last week Normandieville was coming down, and a big new grandstand was going up on the elevated highway which skirts the piers. The Navy was getting ready for the raising of the Normandie, burned Feb. 9, 1942, which had never sailed under her Navy name-U.S.S. Lafayette...
...Designed by Manhattan Architect John Sloan, it will out-glamor California's fabulous Santa Anita Park, generally considered the world's most ornamental race track. Snuggling at the foot of the snow-capped Sierra Madre Mountains, Sloan's dream track will have a three-tiered grandstand, four-tiered clubhouse with betting windows and cocktail bars on each level and a super-gaudy ballroom with a black marble floor, silver walls and shell-pink ceiling...
Partnership Party. The Axis could take no comfort from the election, and made only the feeblest attempts to do so. As concerned the war, the mandate was clear: the Republican Party was now a full-fledged partner. No longer could the Republican minority in Congress sit by as grandstand critic, make its protests for the record, leave policy up to the New Deal, take none of the responsibilities and wait to capitalize on the mistakes. Henceforth, if the war went badly, the G.O.P. would share the blame...
Last week Whirlaway gave his admirers more than a swish. Dressed in his devil's-red hood with one-eyed blinker (to keep him from bearing out), he strutted to the post, cakewalked around the track until he reached the stretch, then, with nothing to pass but the grandstand, put on the famed finishing sprint that has made him the turf world's top money winner. Time: 2:05 2/5 for the mile-and-three-sixteenths...