Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...square, raced across it, darted ten yards up the Potsdamerstrasse in the British sector. Two soldiers jumped out; one grabbed a U.S. newsreel cameraman, but the latter wrenched free and escaped. The other Russian chased a German photographer several yards farther up the street. He seemed ready to level his rifle and fire. A British major standing nearby, trim in his Black Watch uniform, put his hand on his pistol holster. The pursuing Russian stopped and walked calmly back to his jeep...
...eight years since Franklin Roosevelt and Mackenzie King met at Ogdensburg, N.Y. and pledged their countries to joint action in defense of North America. The agreement still stands, but because it keeps raising questions which have to be settled at the top policy level, U.S. Defense Secretary James Forrestal was in Ottawa last week. After talking things over with his Canadian counterpart, Brooke Claxton, he planned to go to Ogdensburg with Claxton and unveil a plaque commemorating the signing of the agreement...
...Disagreed with Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft's prediction that "we are reaching a stabilized price level." Prices, said the President caustically, level off each week but always at a higher level...
Early in October 1944, the British bombed the Dutch island of Walcheren (pop. 60,000), which is largely below sea level. When the bombs fell, "the dikes bowed their straight backs like animals rearing in fright . . . Suddenly the water began to move across Walcheren. It billowed in through the front door of Flushing and the side door of Westkapelle; through the back door of Veere it ran out . . . Now the air photos grew daily more satisfactory. Dozens of red circles were marked in the gray. Each circle stood for a group of enemy pillboxes. On each new photograph a dozen...
...such an interminable frieze of sobbing boys, dying dogs and disabled children (to a final, horribly protracted sickbed scene in a hospital) that the real events of Ruth's life are almost entirely crowded out. Sportwriter Sam Levene and Ruth's screen wife Claire Trevor do their level best to make up for this hokum; but even their efforts, plus Bendix's straightforward performance, do not save...