Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once edited by Poet Lafcadio Hearn, the 72-year-old Item had its liveliest years (1891-1906) under gun-toting Editor & Publisher Dominick O'Malley, who was twice wounded in pitched battles. In the 1930s it slumped in prestige and circulation, partly because it acted as a mouthpiece for Boss Huey Long while the rival Times-Picayune- whiplashed his regime...
...since the dread approach of the Spanish Armada had the people of Penzance seen so many massed ships. In one day, the blue waters of Mounts Bay were agitated by 60 British, French and Dutch warships; the air reverberated with 21-gun salutes. It was the start of week-long Western Union naval maneuvers known as Exercise Verity...
...nights after their television premiere, Olsen & Johnson unveiled their new revue Funzapoppin before 8,700 people in Madison Square Garden. Next morning the gun-shy critics produced mixed notices. "A gargantuan honky-tonk," sniffed the Time's Brooks Atkinson. "Olsen & Johnson would be practically scriptless if the Chinese hadn't invented gunpowder," grumped the Herald Tribune. "A cheerful nightmare," said the World-Telegram. Actually, Olsen and Johnson seem to be criticproof. Funzapoppin's predecessor, Hellzapoppin, was disdained by almost every critic, yet it ran for more than three years on Broadway...
...anti-Leopoldist big gun was Socialist Premier Paul-Henri Spaak. Boomed Spaak: "The referendum would not be held without fighting in Belgium...
Muscles, he says, are chemical engines that get their energy from a compound called adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Their active portions are submicroscopic fibers made of a peculiar protein called actomyosin. When the protein is linked with ATP (to supply energy), it is like a coiled spring or a loaded gun. An electrical impulse from the nervous system can "fire the gun," making the fibers contract powerfully...