Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people in twelve eastern states and the District of Columbia felt the hand of war a little heavier on them last week. No one could ride to a restaurant, a theater, a picnic or make any other pleasure excursion without risking his right to buy gas for the duration...
...damage to the disaster point which Sir Arthur is shooting at. But he and General Eaker do not count on straight arithmetic; they count more on precise planning, based in turn on incredibly detailed study and knowledge of the German industrial base, and upon the cumulative effects of heavier & heavier bombings...
...change from winter uniforms to summer khaki was withheld until May 25 in order that the cadre and officers might wear the heavier uniform to complement the graduating class on the 24th and change to cotton on the folliwing day to match the dress of the new Officer Candidates...
Italy's navy can be expected to show some fight near home. The job of licking it and still escorting convoys puts Admiral Cunningham in the position, as someone has said, of a man with a woman on his arm, fighting someone heavier than himself...
...snake her way through a radiobroadcast love scene, Theda Bara, 52, siren of the early silents, emerged from 20-odd years of retirement. Her victim was goggle-eyed Groucho Marx. The studio audience found the famed vamp about 30 Ib. heavier than in her salad days, but still trim in the legs, hypnotic in the eyes. They also found her afflicted with stage fright. The ex-siren told reporters she did the stunt as a favor to friends, had no idea of trying a comeback, then returned to the curio-cluttered mansion where she has long been one of Hollywood...