Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black hearse had already driven up quietly and was standing with its engines idling. It was waiting to carry the Polish Government in Exile into the Potter's Field of history. For in Yalta the Big Three had written a successful finis to the first stage of the social revolution epitomized in Poland's Warsaw Government. By agreeing that the Warsaw Government should be "reorganized on a broader . . . basis with the inclusion of democratic leaders from Poland itself and from Poles abroad," by agreeing to a free Polish election supervised by Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov...
With big-league baseball still in the hoping stage-hoping to limp through another season, mostly on minor league manpower-the baseball news of the week came from Hawaii. There the Navy had assembled not one but two bona fide big-league teams. Managed by Lieut. Bill Dickey, late of the Yankees, the sailors were packing their seabags for an exhibition tour of the farthest-flung Pacific posts. The batting order...
...flag flew over Manila again and with it MacArthur had brought America. In the second great drama that had spread across the Philippine stage in three years, his cast of characters was a cross section of the U.S.-leathery professional fighters who had soldiered in the islands before, bronzed youngsters called by the draft from Midwest farms, sunburnt youngsters from factory and school...
...Race on the Roads. The stage was set for the big third act. To play the principal role, both Buckeyes and cavalrymen drove swiftly southward. The cavalry had mechanization and thus the big advantage. While Beightler's foot-slogging Buckeyes hurried along, cleaning out nest after nest of Japs as they went, Mudge's cavalrymen piled into trucks, jeeps and half-tracks at Guimba and ripped toward Manila over Highway...
...biggest card is his ability to get headliners in the audience to participate. Some of them, such as Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, chime in from down front. Others, such as W. C. Fields, Mickey Rooney, Victor Moore, Edgar Bergen, Dick Powell, Rudy Vallee, take over the stage. Murray exploits his guest stars brilliantly-by not exploiting them at all. They are never given billing, are often not even introduced. As a result, the audience feels it is really getting something extra for its money...