Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moving them up was no easy job Cloudbursts of both rain and bombs had played havoc with the 400 miles of communications the Germans had now strung out behind them and 2,000 miles from flank to flank. Mechanized equipment was getting just as tired as human equipment; it also had to be replaced...
Captain Bob Owen's Blue cindermen are not at top strength for the annual Yale-Harvard track meet to be run on the Eli track tomorrow. Comprehensives and final exams have wreaked havoc with the daily practice sessions, high hurdler Dick Osborne is still suffering from the leg injury he received last week, and consequently may not run, and the Elis' showing in the Princeton and Ivy League meets has not been too encouraging...
...line of stalwart young pilots, standing at attention with glasses of sherry in their hands. After felicitations and a fighter's simple supper, the King was taken out on the field, where he examined Britain's best night-fighting planes, the Bristol Beau and the Douglas DB7 Havoc-bigger ships than the day fighters. They are two-seaters so that the pilot can concentrate on navigation, the gunner on spotting and shooting; twin-engined so that they would not be blinded by propeller reflection or by fiery exhausts right in front of their eyes; and with capacious fuel...
...outfit that was not surprised by the first shattering havoc wrought by German Stukas was the U. S. Navy. For Navy fliers had first conceived and developed the technique of launching a bomb from an airplane diving as close to the vertical as possible. But because U. S. citizens and their Congress believed in penny-pinching Army & Navy upkeep in peacetime, most of the Navy's dive-bombers today are obsolescent biplanes, descendants of the first Curtiss Helldiver...
...Friend (torchy), Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (catchy). Cigar-chewing Lyricist Lorenz Hart, the pint-sized genius with a two-quart capacity, abets the spirit of the occasion with leerics about zippers, canopied beds, secret telephones, mirrored ceilings, iniquity, chambermaids who are deaf, dumb & blind. Brazen little June Havoc, sister of Burlesqueen Gypsy Rose Lee, does a sidesplitting parody of all kinds of cafe singing and yields nothing to her sister in ability to make a rhinestone gown twitch with significance. In singing Zip, the show's funniest novelty song, a girl named Jean Casto, wearing horn-rimmed goggles...