Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sooner or later it had to happen. In the third week of Germany's "harassing fire" with winged robot bombs on southern England, one of the missiles hit a nursery home in which 26 tiny war orphans were sleeping. The first body recovered from the welter of wreckage was a dead, dark-haired little boy in a blue bed jacket; the second, a dead, blonde little girl in a pink nightdress...
...Liberty ship program, Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery, vice-chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission, said: "Mass production of ships will have to end with the war. The yards will compete for a maximum number of ships we can hope to build, about one hundred a year. What will happen to the other yards? We don't know the answer." But the tin-hatted workers in Richmond No. 2 could make a sound guess. The payroll at Kaiser's four Richmond yards has dropped from 93,000 to 73,000. It is still going down...
...traps, poisons, axes, nooses and knives, one of those storms blows up that shakes the house and douses the lights. Once it encounters suitable weather, and has piled up enough corpses to throw the few jittery survivors into sharper relief, Ten Little Indians gets pretty menacing and tense; things happen, and the characters become more than toppling tenpins. But. the first act is talky and slow, and even the second act's murders are leisurely. And in terms of psychological interest, eight people with a motive for killing one man still have a decided edge over one man with...
...many assault battalions that somebody had called him "often a bride but never a bridesmaid," but now it was obvious that he would never lead another. Said he: "I hate like hell for this to happen so early. But I'll be all right. I'll see you back on States-side and we'll throw a whiz-dinger." Said the brigadier general: "No man in the shape he's in has a right to look so well and talk so normally...
...great gangster films were as immediate to their day as that day's newspapers. For all its harshness, this one, like the events it tells of, seems to happen years after its proper time...