Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellows, profited by stepping into dead men's shoes. In 1939 he commanded the Red Banner army in Outer Mongolia, where the Russians were engaged in a frontier struggle with the Japanese. Zhukov applied classic cavalry tactics to armored warfare: he massed his tanks, smashed a hole through the center of the Japanese Sixth Army, and bloodily crushed its flanks between his fanning-out Panzers and advancing infantry. This little-known action helped deter the Japanese from attacking the Soviet rear in 1941, leaving Stalin free to bring his Siberian troops westward to the defense of Moscow...
...became clear that such a collection demanded a separate building, and in 1940 President Conant dug the first spadeful of earth from a hole that was to become the new rare-book library. When it was opened three months after the start of World War II, Houghton was described as "Fire-proof, earthquake-proof, and reasonably protected against the incendiary bomb." The age of nuclear weapons may have increased Houghton's vulnerability, but it has not diminished the value of a collection that has withstood three hundred years in the Yard...
...sudden cold popped open a hole between one ageing cowhide head and the frame, thus ending 28 years of service, the last three spent in enforced silence...
...condemned prisoner, and Eddie will take him along, because this guy knows where to find 200 Gs. Then, too, there are a steady-eyed priest, a good guard, a bad guard, and a good, dumb crime reporter. After the well-engineered escape, Eddie, the boys and his moll foolishly hole up on the top floor of a warehouse. At this point, the shooting becomes so excessive that the audience can hardly hear the dialogue. When the bullets finally burn Eddie to the floor, everybody feels that shooting is too good for him; moviegoers may feel the same way about...
Gaucherie. In Pasadena, Calif., after she had testified in an uncontested divorce action that her husband had blackened her eyes 50 times, broken her glasses 150 times, broken her collarbone, broken her nose and kicked a hole in her leg, Mrs. Emma L. Kincaid was asked if she found this upsetting, replied: "Well I'll tell you, it certainly embarrasses...