Word: holocaust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palestine cauldron was aboil again. Jews, now driven by the need to save survivors from the European holocaust, were demanding the immediate reopening of large-scale immigration into the Holy Land. Arabs, now united in a strong seven-land league, were protesting threateningly against any such concession. Both sides addressed their pleas and threats to Palestine's harassed custodian, Great Britain...
Match into Holocaust. Production costs are pared by filming time-eating outdoor shots with low-paid doubles and stunt men. With transparencies and miniatures, the film is finished in the studio, using a minimum of a well-paid actor's time. The Bills wangle Army & Navy tie-ins : in one picture they used 250 Army planes, in another, a group of Navy divers. Cracked one Hollywoodite : "They strike a match and make it look like a five-alarm fire...
...Holocaust. Commander Robert Downes, damage control officer, had just left his cabin. Concussion hurled him back through the closed door and up against the outer bulkhead. The forward elevator, weighing 32 tons, popped up from the flight deck, its plungers blown from their sockets. In a control room in the towering island structure Lieut. William Simon was flung against the overhead. He came to and managed to crawl through a door. Simon was one of three men to escape; 30 died inside. On the gallery deck men were trapped inside jammed doors and baked to death by the breath...
...there are not millions of American mothers and their families who feel as I do, then indeed has my son's (and all the other sons') death been in vain, and the housewives and their children will in very fact eat themselves swinishly to another holocaust...
...size." It went very well. Ammo cans sizzled and pup-pupped, flames licked heavenward. They fused the second warehouse. Mortar shells began whistling around them. Amid explosion and fire Gleason's furies danced, hugging their TNT as they ran. With gasoline, alcohol and straw they fed the holocaust...