Word: showin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could be depended on to execute instructions to the letter, and to maintain the tough U.S. military front that seems best understood in Moscow. The man he picked is poker-faced, tough Vice Admiral Alan Goodrich Kirk, 60, USN (ret.), who ran the Navy's showin the invasion of Sicily, is now ambassador to Belgium. In June, Kirk will take over Spasso House, the U.S. embassy just a mile from the Kremlin, known to some of the inmates as Spasm House...
...Prewar U.S. precedent: In January 1930, a crowd of 4,000, trying to squeeze into 1,400 seats at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History for a showin of a film on Einstein's relativity theory, pushed down an iron gate, shoved a heavy door off its hinges...