Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attack! "Insects that attack stored grain and dried fruits were the object of effective blitz attacks by the entomologists, carried out in many cases by men who had to wear gas masks to protect themselves...
...Miami Beach Air Force Schools. Somehow one of Milt Caniff's titillating Army strips got into the Tropics. The Miami Herald, which prints the civilian Terry in that area under an exclusive contract with the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, protested. The Herald had no objection to a Terry run in Army papers; it did object to having a Terry, especially a superspecial eye-filling Terry, as a civilian competitor. Upshot was the News Syndicate, mindful of its contracts, asked Artist Caniff to stop doing special Army strips until the muddle was untangled...
...main object of the Allies was to destroy Axis ports of entry along the Mediterranean. They attacked from the east as well as the west. As long ago as the middle of December, the Allied High Command decided that the Germans intended to make their last stand for North Africa in Tunisia. Allied strategists believed that Rommel would continue to retreat, delaying the British Eighth Army all he could, but keeping his battered troops intact. In Tunisia he would combine forces with General Walther Nehring and present a hard, solid front...
Topolski's art is in the tradition of the great draftsmen Daumier, Callot, Hogarth, his earlier work astoundingly like that of France's Benjamin-Constant. Says Topolski: "My particular love, my aim, and object in art" is Descriptive Draftsmanship-which he believes to be perishing...
...traced to a crutch which he found in the attic of a tower from which he had planned to push a girl. Says Dali: "It was the first time in my life that I saw a crutch. . . . The superb crutch! Already it appeared to me as the object possessing the height of authority and solemnity. [It] communicated to me an assurance, an arrogance even, which I had never been capable of until then...