Word: novas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brilliant nova (new star) suddenly appeared in the southern sky (over Africa and South America) on the weekend that Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower opened the African front. It is the brightest nova that has appeared in the sky since 1918, the year of the Armistice...
...riding across the Milky Way. The shooting was done outdoors, at night, in midwinter. So he went to warmer Hollywood, where he made his debut menacing Tyrone Power and the British Empire in Lloyds of London. Lancer Spy was supposed to make a "supernova" of Sanders. "A super-nova," 20th Century-Fox explained, "is what astronomers call a big star which appears suddenly and shines with great brilliance." Instead, Sanders became one of the best scene stealers in the business and one of Hollywood's more sinister personifications of Evil (Man Hunt, The Son of Monte Cristo). As Evil...
Amateurs also watch for novae-stars which inexplicably burst into brilliance, then subside. If a nova searcher sees a strange new star, he telegraphs its location to a major observatory...
Bluntly last week Finance Minister James Lorimer Ilsley put the basic issues to his Nova Scotia constituents: "To vote 'no' is to vote for isolationism, and isolationism is short-sighted and inevitably fails those who adhere to it. A 'no' vote would play into the hands of the enemy and their fifth-column allies...
...patrol plane pancaked on the ocean, rescued nine Britons whose tanker was sunk by a German U-boat off New York. A South American steamer spotted a lifeboat half-filled with water and dead sailors, but had to leave them when a periscope broke water near by. Off Nova Scotia, 20 men of the 48-man crew of a torpedoed tanker were picked up. Three semiconscious survivors of the Standard Oil tanker W. L. Steed were safe in an Atlantic port, but 35 other crew members were missing...