Word: grinder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Power & Propulsion. As the first half-dozen victims, including Duke and Michigan, went through the grinder, Army out-scored its opponents 271 points to 33, outgained them 2,923 yards to 961. The only statistics that ran against West Point's wonders were those piled up by eagle-eyed officials. They have cracked down with a top-heavy 444 yards in penalties, mostly for illegal use of hands...
Tired Troops. Before the enemy stood the tired Chinese armies of round-faced, explosive General Hsueh Yueh. Once some of China's finest, these troops had been run through the meat grinder at Changteh last November; had still not recovered. They had had to pull out of Changsha after a stubborn, hopeless defense, to escape annihilation. This week the armies, beat out, short of food, retreated painfully on foot. Where they could stand and fight, no one seemed to know...
...Tripoli. Here, in a city which, except for some bombed buildings, looks untouched by war, he sat down on a restaurant balcony to a dinner of antipasto, spaghetti with meat sauce, steak and fruit tart. He washed it down with a bottle of sweet, heady wine while the organ-grinder played 0 Sole Mio on the sidewalk below...
...Sevastopol the Red meat grinder continued to chop up the remnants of the Crimean garrison. At sea, Vice Admiral F. S. Oktyabrsky's fleet waited for and attacked Axis ships as they tried to slip out for a desperate dash to Rumania, (last week's toll: 18 large vessels...
...apple charm to boot. Orson Welles, as a nice parody of a magician, saws Marlene Dietrich in two and watches her better half walk off with the act. Sophie Tucker, the Manassa Mauler of her field, shouts a 1½-entendre salute to the boys through a meat-grinder larynx. Dinah Shore, singing I'll Get By over the short waves, soothes the entire planet in generously buttered mush. Ted Lewis talks through his top hat, and everybody who has ever liked Lewis-or John Barrymore -is happy. There are at least a dozen other acts, some of them...