Word: hob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thunderhead, Son of Flicka (20th Century-Fox) is a well-ventilated, prettily colored sequel to My Friend Flicka (TIME, April 26, 1943). Its simple story (Roddy McDowall breaks and trains Thunderhead; Thunderhead runs a race, kills a wild Albino stallion that has been raising hob among the local mares and becomes king of the herd) keeps horses constantly moving in the open air, across grandiose Northwestern landscapes. Horses in motion are always cinegenic, whether or not the motion makes any other sort of sense; and a couple of fights in this picture are dramatic as well as beautiful to watch...
Over southeast England civilians were puzzled by long thin strips of paperbacked, shiny foil, which fell from German planes and twisted slowly earthward. Reportedly tin foil, first dropped by the British on European raids, embarrasses, plays hob with radar readings and night fighters' detection devices. The British have a name for the strips: "flutterers...
Given the chance to get out, 14,950 women took it. By last week Hobby's army had only recovered the strength it had lost during that debacle. Today Hob by has requests from field commanders for 600,000 WACs. She has only 63,000 to supply. For the second time in her successful life Oveta Gulp Hobby has been really balked...
...newer gyro compass (about thirty years old), which uses a gyroscope that tends to seek the North Pole, is an improvement for sea navigation. But its bulk and the quick, violent turns of airplane flight make the gyro compass impractical in the air. Plane movements also raise hob with a magnetic compass...
...successes fell off when the British woke up to the fact that the submarine was still a grave menace, and escorted their convoys more heavily. But after the fall of France, when the U-boats had bases along the entire west coast of Europe, the wolf-pack system raised hob with Allied shipping. Of some 57,600,000 total deadweight tons of British shipping, U-boats sank at least 17,600,000 tons in three and a half years. Working in the Nazis' favor was the vast demand on Allied shipping for the supply of many distant war theaters...