Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pardoned last summer because of his music, took up a new career as an arranger for CBS and Count Basic's band. Last week his new career ended abruptly. He was locked up because his lady love, Wilhelmina Washington, was found dead, all cut up with stab wounds...
Morgan made a great stab at the ball and deflected it so that the Quaker end couldn't get to it, but the films plainly show that the national scholarship boy from Covina, California hadn't a Chinaman's chance of intercepting it. He had been seriously critized immediately after the game for missing the break that might have gotten the Crimson off to an early lead. If he had been able to get his hands on the pigskin it would have been a sure score as the remaining twenty-five yards or so to the goal was as bare...
SEEING IS BELIEVING-Carter Dickson -Morrow ($2). At an English party, Vicky Fane, under a hypnotic spell, is forced to stab her husband with a rubber dagger-which changes to steel as she drives it home. Irascible Sir Henry Merrivale, interrupting the dictation of his libelous memoirs, supplies a transparently simple solution to an apparently insoluble problem. Good mental exercise and robustly amusing...
Britain and Russia hoped the trickle would soon swell to a torrent and wash away their apprehensions. Prime British fear is of a back stab like the Nazi-inspired revolt in Iraq last spring of Rashid Ali El-Gailani. For at almost every compass point from Teheran, the Shah's capital, the Russo-British positions are potentially vulnerable...
...issue a proclamation; he was as silent as the grave. The talking was taken over by those two good friends, Foreign Commissar Molotov and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Molotov exhorted the Russian people to fight against "the clique of bloodthirsty Fascist rulers." Ribbentrop: "Bolshevist Moscow is about to stab National Socialist Germany in the back while she is engaged in a struggle for her existence." Before this war ended, either Stalin or Hitler would no longer be a great dictator...