Word: lurks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...following night "Oscar"-the Japanese submarine that seems to lurk continuously offshore-surfaced at midnight and indulged in some ten minutes of scattered shelling of Marines. There were no casualties...
Nazi bombers will inevitably redouble their efforts to choke off Russia's supplies. And coupled with the sky prowlers is an even greater menace from conquered Norwegian territory. At Trondheim lurk five Nazi men o' war, their snouts pointed ominously at Russia's sorely needed northern supply line...
...More concrete deterrents were to be encountered across the Sea of Japan. Vladivostok is ringed with fortifications. Beneath the cold waters of its harbor lurk submarines, possibly 75 or 100. Within bombing range of Siberian airdromes are all of Japan's paper cities. And guarding Vladivostok and all of eastern Siberia are two special Red Banner Far Eastern Armies, garrisoned and equipped to stand a long siege; mobile, well-trained, efficiently commanded by General of Army Josef Rodionovich Apanasenko. In 1938 the Japanese Army ran into the Red Banner and came out second best...
...part is that of an idle upper-cruster with an insatiable yen for detective work, so much so that he leads a double life, writing mysteries on the side. His research work leads him to an amusing set of experiences with an archaic strip-teaser and the murders which lurk in her wake. The picture is funny, inasmuch as Flynn is far more convincing as a playboy than as a knight-crrant...
French pictures are noted for their delicate handling of humor, leavened in with even the most pathetic tragedy. No smiles lurk here; only lines and lines of dead or grim Canadiens. French pictures, and those of Jean Gabin in particular, are almost unique in their unaffected and moving treatment of sorrow. No sorrow lingers here. The acting is ham-ish, and the story laughably obvious...