Word: salient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...independence was almost bartered away in the peace settlement, George Waller decided that everything that happened to the Grand Duchy during World War II should be witnessed by disinterested observers. His witnesses were correspondents. He invited them in, expedited their visas, got them interviews and a look at a salient of the onetime Western Front, entertained them with cocktails and phonograph recordings of such Americana as Floradora and Bert Williams' You Can't Do Nothin' Till Martin Gits Here. When the Germans rehearsed their invasion of Luxembourg a few days before the act, Bob Casey (Chicago Daily...
...nests. Maneuvering to outflank the enemy, they stumbled on a field headquarters and captured 20 German officers and men. A burst of machine-gun fire cut down half of York's companions. The corporal thereupon, singlehanded, picked off 20 machine-gunners-enough to persuade the entire 35-gun salient to surrender. York and seven survivors marched 132 prisoners to the rear...
...Salient titles: René de Chambrun's De La Lorraine à Washington; Laval, by Henri Torres, a French liberal lawyer who knew the No. 1 French Quisling intimately...
...early '20s, winds up with a topflight, ill-paid hot outfit in Chicago. His pianist brother Frank sticks to the seaboard; his greater talent and his tameness betray him into the venal successes of the "swing" rage. Between the two of them they cover most of the salient features of jazz and Jazz-living among white musicians. There is some sore stuff on that corrupt necessity, the musician's union, and an interesting passage about marijuana. Send Me Down, in its own scale, is a likable enough performance. But it is scarcely adequate to its subject...
...this tiff, Henderson chose to occupy an unpopular salient. He picked on Chrysler's profits, which he said were about $20,000,000 (after taxes) during the first six months of this year. Nash and Studebaker, whose price increases were allowed after the Chrysler refusal, have not been making much money, and this-as well as their willingness to cooperate-was cited by OPACS men as a reason for not bearing down on them. "If a company is in a position to absorb cost increases, we're asking them to do it," said OPACS Price Director John Kenneth...