Word: nastiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critics readily obliged. The Mirror's tribute: "One of the . . . nastiest . . . exhibits ever to contaminate a theater." The Post's: "[The] ad's wrong, son. It's the worst play that ever hit any place...
They were not through. Under one of the youngest division commanders in the Army, 38-year-old Major General Robert T. Frederick, they drove on into Aschaffenburg, where they ran into some of the nastiest opposition yet-fanatical Nazi boys, girls and old men. They smashed on into the Nazi shrine of Nurnberg, crossed the Danube, and with the 42nd liberated the prisoners of Dachau. A week before V-E day, the weary 45th marched into Munich...
...stations they carried back their wounded, caught in Jap mortar fire on the beach. Next day, the 4th made a second breakthrough, cutting the Japs into three pockets, one of which was soon eliminated. As this week began, it was time for formal announcement that the Pacific's nastiest exterminating job was done...
From then on Bill was almost continuously in the thick of the fighting with one or another of our Armies-took his chances with our men at Cherbourg, Saint Lô, Avranches, Orleans, Nijmegen, Aachen, the Hürtgen Forest ("that was the nastiest fighting...
Double Indemnity (Paramount) is the season's nattiest, nastiest, most satisfying melodrama. James M. Cain's novelette was carnal and criminal well beyond screen convention. Director Billy Wilder's casting is just as unconventional. Naturals for their parts are Fred MacMurray as an insurance salesman capable of murder; Barbara Stanwyck as the unprintable blonde (for the occasion) who exploits his capabilities; Edward G. Robinson as the insurance-claims sleuth who sniffs out the flaws in their all-but-perfect crime...