Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CAIRO--The British Eighth Army was believed setting up tonight a big pincers movement on El Agheila, designed to clamp down on German Marshal Erwin Rommels shattered forces from both west and east when and if they attempt a stand in the narrow corridor there...
...same long-standing cause: the restoration of the French monarchy. Those in France naturally still found it expedient to placate Adolf Hitler. Those in French Africa found it profitable to side with the U.S. invasion forces. There was even a special advantage in this dualism: the monarchist movement was hedged against any outcome...
...Magna Charta, whereas it will prove to be merely a license for a nationwide fight for union leadership." Months before it happened, Boddy foresaw the German-Russian alliance. Last September he was on the button again. Wrote Boddy in his daily Views of the News column: " . .. Another great movement will be a mechanized force dispatched from Gibraltar across the narrow channel to Tangier and from there along the coast of North Africa toward Tripoli. Now there you have the pattern of a possible Allied offensive...
...symbolisms. It displays some clever touches. It provides some amusing moments, chiefly at the expense of the gabbling, skeptical townspeople (though their skepticism can hardly be termed extreme). It enables Cinemactor Stuart Erwin to perform, man and tree, very likably. But the play, with its single frail idea, lacks movement and variety. Critic Sir Leslie Stephen once said that certain things are interesting only because they actually happened. That applies, on the whole, to men turning into trees...
Died. John Whorter ("Professor") Zeno, 87, "grandfather of parachuting"; near Memphis. As a handlebar-mustached young man in a skin-tight costume he thrilled crowds in the '80s by jumping from ascension balloons. "For the first 400 feet there is no movement on the part of the parachute to open," he said in 1898. . . . It is that first drop that looks hazardous and sometimes, when the parachute is faulty, it is, but not otherwise...