Word: nonstop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winter Comes. The cold rains had stopped and the autumn sun was shining on Paris when General George C. Marshall, War Mobilization Director Jimmy Byrnes and their party stepped put of an Army C-54 transport which had flown nonstop from the U.S. They were met by Generals Eisenhower, Bradley and "Beedle" Smith, Eisenhower's crack chief of staff. Marshall and Eisenhower were solemn as they shook hands. They did not, of course, tell correspondents what they would confer about. One obvious guess: winter on the western front...
...content to let him think not only that, but also that she is soon to remarry and intends to put her baby on the adoption market. It is that prospect which prods the proud father to action. He kidnaps the child and, hidden in a hotel, dives into a nonstop orgy of gauze masks, baby-gruels, weighings-in, and attendant embarrassments...
Last week Mediterranean Allied Air Forces headquarters in Italy disclosed that, since early August, 100 four-engined British bombers had been sent out on the 1,750-mile nonstop route to Warsaw and back, to drop weapons and ammunition by parachute to the harried patriots. The pilots had to throttle down low over the city to make reasonably sure that their consignments reached Poles and not Germans. Twenty-one bombers were shot down; several more failed to deliver their loads...
...recorded sound track of a smalltown, intensely feminine mind which for 30 years, with unabated enthusiasm and energy, has been hanging over Hollywood's back fence, talking like a ruptured water main to hundreds of thousands of other smalltown, intensely feminine minds. Most of the talk is a nonstop, hypnotic colloquy, starched with babbling anecdote. But the book includes little about Lolly Parsons as good as the things it leaves...
...time off, Tracy plays tennis with his son Johnny, clacks with his boyhood crony, Pat O'Brien, talks with Victor Fleming about horses and about the war career of their close friend Clark Gable. A nonstop gum chewer and candy nibbler who describes himself as "a box of chocolates broadened out into a character actor," Tracy has recently lost weight (8 Ib.) because war has drastically curtailed his formal supply of sweets...