Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshall came back. This time he brought along Major General Frank Parker, Retired. He said, "Mr. McGonegal, I just wanted to bring your old regimental commander to see you." Unable to shake hands, McGonegal embraced the old soldier. Said McGonegal: "The years just seemed to fall away like a pile of blocks...
...also has to deal with a multiplicity of other problems inherent in many other uses of wood products: from income-tax forms and war bonds to delivery of paper-wrapped ammunition in wooden boxes and V-boxes. His efforts go not alone to an equitable chopping of the wood pile, but also to prodding production toward a larger pile...
They had to claw their way along a mountainous, broken front of 20 miles. In the north the French, under Tunisian veteran General Alphonse Pierre Juin, drove the Germans from Mount Ferro (3,500 ft.), Mount Pagano (3,600 ft.) and Mount Pile (3,700 ft.). They slid into the village of Acquafondata, gained a hold on one of four roads to Cassino. In the central-southern sector, U.S. and Canadian soldiers took Mount Porchia (where 16 stretcher-bearers were killed), Mount Capraro, Mount Trocchio, the strongly held village of Cervaro. From Trocchio, they overlooked Cassino itself. They rushed down...
Suds in Your Eye (adapted by Jack Kirkland from Mary Lasswell's novel; produced by Katherine Brown and J. H. Del Bondio) chronicles the capers of three beer-befuddled old girls in a San Diego junk yard. Mistress of the junk pile is a tough-but-tender Irish widow (Jane Darwell). Her guests are a lorgnetted, half-tetched old maid (Brenda Forbes) and a you-lead-I'll-follow neighbor woman. Light of heart and low in funds, the three of them racket about, play Cupid, take up Spanish, wrangle with the tax collector...
...Antanas Smetona, 69, Lithuania's first President (1919-20; 1926-36), first and only dictator (1926-40); suffocated in the burning of his son's house; in Cleveland. Short-bearded, long-mustached Newspaper Editor Smetona was a prime builder of the eastern Baltic's political spillikin-pile. Long an agitator for in dependence from Czarist Russia, he headed a successful putsch against Lithuania's pro-Soviet Russian Socialists in 1926, ten years later dissolved all opposition parties. He fled to the U.S. when Russia took over...