Word: snorts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Dr. Dow, whose company, almost singlehanded, saved the U.S. from a critical magnesium shortage (TIME, March 20), came a resounding snort. In Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, after receiving the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Chemists, he cried: "We are being warned against the dangers of freedom. ... All of which is rot. We are being told that ... we must ease out of controls and that chaos would follow their sudden ending. By the very nature of our present controls we cannot ease out of them. We can only ease into permanent control. . . . Whatever may be the seeming...
...hills near one country town, where mammoth green tanks snort around an ancient castle, and groves of trees hide hundreds of howitzers, U.S. newsmen gazed last week at a cool $4,000,000,000 worth of materiel...
This was the sort of talk the Hollywood pashas had heard for years from' fourth-raters and sour-grape sideliners. If a proved professional talked like that it was just a come-on. The proper reaction was either to snort your opinion and move off or to up your offer. They upped their offers-and clonked in mild faints again as Miss Bergman again said, no thank you. But this sort of talk suddenly dazzled David Selznick with a new, if incredible, idea. The idea was that Miss Bergman meant precisely what she said. She was genuinely less interested...
...picture drives home lesson No. 1 when tinny little Japanese amphibian tanks snort toward Singapore through the Malayan rice paddies which Allied generals had pronounced impassable. Field Marshal Rommel and his mighty Mark IVs teach lesson No. 2 by blazing away through the Libyan sandstorms. Then there are the Nazi battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, on their dash to home port, defiantly steaming through the English Channel before the British navy woke up. A brief, shocking sequence of Jap soldiers executing a pair of Chinese prisoners suggests the basic note of frightfulness as a factor in Axis tactics...
...racing fans may spare their tears. Big Red leads the life of Reilly, is king of a 968-acre demesne in Kentucky's lush, warm Blue Grass country, is stalled in a luxury stable, with attendants to come a-running at his every sneeze and snort. Since settling down at stud some 20 years ago, he has attracted visitors on the scale of the Dionne Quintuplets. Herbert Haseltine, who once sculped the carriage horse of Britain's Queen Alexandra, is at work on a model for a bronze statue of Big Red. A typical...