Word: nosedives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under a bright California sky, the grey transport General George M. Randall nosed into the cluttered estuary of Oakland. Aboard her last week were some 1,500 officers and men of the 1st Marine Division, home from Korea for a 30-day leave.* In her hold were the bodies of...
The disappearance of their main scapegoat, under indictment for "crimes against the state," threw the congressional committee into a boiling rage. For three days, every spare cop was flung into the chase, and government patrol craft nosed into every cove and inlet along the river coast. But their quarry got...
Bayreuth, operatic shrine erected by Richard Wagner to himself, is getting ready for its first wide-open festival since 1939-and this time under the direction of grandsons Wieland Wagner, 33, and Wolfgang Wagner, 31, both sharp-nosed images of Grossvater. Last week they had workmen hammering & sawing away on...
On the right wing of the allied advance last week, the Turkish brigade in Korea ran into Communist fire from a snub-nosed hill. Looking like warriors of another age, in their greatcoats and sweeping mustaches, the Turks applied their standard solution-they fixed bayonets and charged. The Chinese ran...
For centuries Kasperle, a long-nosed marionette with the virtues of Galahad and the deportment of Mortimer Snerd, has been muddling his way to victory over the villains of Germany's popular puppet dramas. Last week at a Berlin congress of 400 East German puppeteers, Professor Sergei Obraslov, director...