Word: sparked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dyed-in-the-wool musical fan will miss the spark that dirty jokes strike so wonderfully. For sex is at an absolute minimum in this edition. That and Ethel Merman are all it needs to concede to a $4.40 a seat show like "Panama Hattie...
After that Worcester clung tenaciously to its slim lead and effectively throttled what few Freshman threats there were before they had time to materialize. For most of the game the Yardlings looked on the verge of going places, but the spark which they lacked against Exeter was still missing, and only once did Chief Boaton's eleven look like an effective team...
...System owes much of its precision and detail to onetime (World War I) Draft Administrator Hugh S. Johnson (who is not bashful about taking due credit in his daily column). Its present spark plug is tawny-haired, blue-eyed Lieut. Colonel Lewis Elaine Hershey. A descendant of antimilitarist Mennonites who migrated to Pennsylvania in 1709, Lieut. Colonel Hershey has specialized on Army conscription plans since 1926. His technical superior on the Joint Army and Navy Selective Service Committee is the Navy's Lieut. Commander Benjamin Stacey Killmaster. But the Navy has little need of conscripts, will leave...
...Schiphol and Ypenburg in the Netherlands, around Calais, at Dunkirk, Abbeville, Antwerp; sowed seeds in the fertile congestion of Berlin; weeded out Channel gun emplacements near Boulogne; fertilized with grimness barges on the coast, oil tanks and rail sidings throughout the German areas, and special objectives like the Bosch spark-plug factory at Stuttgart, the docks at Hamburg, Marelli magneto plant near Turin, an aluminum factory at Bitterfeld, huge power plants at Genoa...
...floor leader in the House since 1939, he whipped a frazzled Minority into a tough Opposition. Washington correspondents last year, in a LIFE poll, picked him ablest Representative in Washington. Not so well known, but indisputable, is his skill as a political mechanic. He knows intimately all the gears, spark plugs, grease cups in the machine. As chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee in 1938, he toured the country, helped get 80 new Republicans elected to the House...