Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bloody Circuit. When Soviet plays have gone on the road for the last three years they have gone straight to war. The Red Army Theater, which is typical, has sent 18 "front brigades" to entertain troops. They play in trenches, in forest clearings, in sheds and blockhouses. There have been many casualties: one whole brigade was cut off by the Germans while acting and never heard from again. One troupe worked for seven months without a change of clothes. One group was playing in a shed to 65 Tommy gunners; in a corner was the command post, at which...
...Manhattan members of Alcoholics Anonymous recently shed their anonymity. Alcoholics Anonymous is a fast-growing national organization of ex-drinkers pledged to help other alcoholics get well. They count chiefly on constant social intercourse among alcoholics who want to be cured. The two members are convinced that most of the estimated 600,000 alcoholics in the U.S. (there are 3,000,000 estimated excessive drinkers) can get over their drinking...
...Seventh Cross (M.G.M.). When anti-Fascist George Heisler (Spencer Tracy) escapes from Westhofen Concentration Camp, he has faith in nobody and in nothing. Only the most rudimentary instinct for self-preservation keeps him moving, as, sleepless and starved, his hand torn and infected, he creeps from culvert to tool shed to woodpile and at length to Mainz, his native city. One by one his comrades in escape are captured, their dying bodies taken back to hang on six crosses in the courtyard of the camp. The seventh cross waits for Heisler, and waits in vain. And little by little...
...Ministry's rifle range on the boulevard Victor, the Germans had built an asbestos shed in which they threw flames at prisoners, or burned them alive with scorching air. The asbestos walls bore the imprints of the palms of men, women and children who had tried to escape. Near the sheds were poles to which prisoners had been bound by the neck, then shot with flesh-gouging dumdum bullets...
...only departures from the conventional among early U.S. battle paintings were those made by American Indians, depicting frontier skirmishes. One, painted by Sitting Bull, was a crude impression of a fierce struggle in which a white man in top hat and tail coat was spitted by an arrow, shed buckets of blood...