Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life [and] one of the 14 most glamorous men in the world. . . ." He "sends chills down feminine spines." The press book urges household editors to mull over Pinza's recipe for Verona fish pudding; farm editors are assured that he is a poultry breeder. Pinza fans, under the spell of their hero, see nothing amiss in this ballyhoo: they consider him every bit as good as the overblown Pinza publicity says...
...grande dame of magazine heart-tuggers had never paid much attention to the radio until last summer, when Novelist Husband Charles (Brass, Bread, Salt) became ill and had a spell of enforced listening. When Swan wanted a new writer for its 3½-year-old forenoon romance, indefatigable Mrs. Norris, 64, jumped at the chance to "start a new line." She found it easy work: "In magazines you have to fill in with long, luxurious descriptions...
...Jardine's talk wove a spell around them. Speaking in magnificent flowing sentences, she talked to them as though they were her own age, but more conservative. She spoke of her three novels: "My books are forgotten for the moment-but they will be read again." She said of her first husband: "I took the only course that could save us from a life of self-contempt and spiritual dishonor." Of her second husband, handsome, upright and slender, with trembling hands and' bushy eyebrows, Mrs. Jardine said: "He was a passionate ornithologist-that is, he knew all about...
...Sylvie was arranging some letters on a board - EVIL. 'Now Bruno,' she said, 'what does that spell...
Five Days in History. More than three months before the invasion fleet hit the Normandy beaches, Allied air forces had started their offensive. Under cover of a long spell of bad weather, German war plants had bounded back into high production, and a battered Luftwaffe was not only recovering but expanding fast when, on Feb. 20, Allied airmen struck. For five days bombers pounded Leipzig, Bernburg, Brunswick, Oschersleben, Regensburg, Augsburg, Furth, Stuttgart. "We lost 244 heavy bombers and 33 fighting planes." But-'"those five days changed the history of the air war." German aircraft plants never recovered from...