Word: infernale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ridenour, an expert on guided missiles, declared, "Of two principal important causes of means for using the atomic bomb, the first, and overwhelmingly the most important, is the infernal machine, or mine, which has been located in operating position during peacetime."
The thing that riles me is that the 16 men left are the most experienced, highest rated, most capable, and most deserving, yet I have to hold them as "military necessities" because it takes trained machinists, electricians, radiomen, etc. to run these complicated little vessels, not raw draftees out of...
Isle of the Dead (RKO Radio) is a shuddery set of improvisations suggested by the famed, funereal painting of Swiss Romanticist Arnold Bocklin. Quarantined on a tomb-haunted island off the Grecian coast, after one of them dies of the plague, is a strange crew, including a Greek general (Boris...
But Durrance was not content with a single masterpiece: [there were] the leaky balloon; the old streetcar; the stealthy assassin (gurgle and choke); the delayed-action infernal machine; the badgered bear with its refreshing and vigorous variant, the dog with bone . . . [and] the difficult aircraft motif. He flew a four...
Well do the walls remember how she went directly to the visitors gallery. As soon as the students became aware of her identity, her first words were greeted with cheers and jeers. She tried to warn them against cigarette-smoking teachers. Then she came to the subject of the intoxicating...