Word: octopus
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Winston Churchill, who wore a yellow Mae West, navy blue overcoat, Trinity House cap, saw two Spitfires down a Nazi bomber, saw himself depicted as an octopus on a Nazi propaganda poster...
...Phase of the war had begun auspiciously. West of Kiev, mobile Soviet columns spread out for 45 miles like the tentacles of a huge octopus, seizing vast booty, disorganizing German resistance. Moscow's Pravda quoted Nazi prisoners: "The swiftness of events defies description...
...story, which manages to be popular and literate at the same time, tells of the efforts of a gallant old lady of reduced means (Grace George) to fight the local political octopus (Edward McNamara) through her newspaper. It also reports the help she gets, in dire extremity, from a hobo ex-journalist (James Gagney). En-route to victory the hobo develops an interest in the old lady's niece (Marjorie Lord), makes a useful friend of the whooping, plume-clad matron of the local sin hall (Marjorie Main), and punches his way through enough physical obstruction to appease those...
...Stalino, the heart of the Donets Basin area. When the Germans occupied it 23 months ago, they hopefully set up in it a branch of the Nazi industrial octopus, the Hermann Göring Combine...
...World," and sprinkled with un-Shakesperian asides, he unfolds 232 pages of diagrams and diagnoses. He also expounds for pages on three of the most treacherous openings ever devised: the Edinburgh Single, a deciding factor in more match and tournament games than any other known opening; the Octopus, whose "manifold tentacles . . . have ensnared many of the game's ablest critics"; and Oliver's Twister, a baffler ever since Manhattan's Oliver J. Mauro laid down its basic "theme" some years...