Word: ox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ox-Bow Incident (20th Century-Fox) is Walter Van Tilburg Clark's excellent sagebrush yarn filmed with tantalizing promise, a good deal of performance and some of lanky Henry Fonda's best acting...
...opposed to the wealth of capable replacements in the backfield, the Ann Arbor team has to rely on "Seven Oak Posts," a number of whom are being mentioned for all-American honors, in the line. "Ox" Wistert, left tackle, is the only player who played against Harvard...
Pagan Nazis still observed the rule: "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn." French workers were promised good wages in Germany. Their families in France received compensation from the French Government: six million francs a day for the 150,000 workers designated to make up the first contingent. War-risk insurance for these Frenchmen in Germany was also paid by Vichy. French taxpayers were not only footing the bill for German soldiers policing France, but were helping to pay Frenchmen for working German industries...
...durable old soldier and scholar who leads South Africa against the Axis, Prime Minister Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, has found it highly convenient to have his chief home opposition split into two warring camps. One is the noisy Ossewa Brandwag (Ox Wagon Sentinel) Party headed by burly Dr. J. F. J. van Rensburg, who would like nothing better than to be Adolf Hitler's South African Gauleiter. The other is the Herenigde (Reunited) Party of bald, myopic Dr. Daniel François Malan.* Dr. Malan preaches with pompous eloquence against "British-Jewish" democracy and advocates his own brand...
...last week the hero had half emerged from scattered tons of sequoia chips. With Blue-Ox Babe slung lightly on his shoulders, he looked as if he could indeed pick his teeth with a pine log. Sculptor Barnes says: "I'd like to do Kit Carson too, and Buffalo Bill...