Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enemies." Milan's Corriere della Sera, mutilated by the censor, voiced a widespread worry: "The limpid truths of the first few hours following the collapse of dictatorship have been succeeded by an atmosphere of perplexity and uncertainty, causing a feeling that the evolution has not reached the last stage...
...Germans in eastern Sicily could stage a rear-guard action, covering a retreat of their main forces. Or they could stand. Either choice would delay the Allies. Neither could save Sicily and the nearest approach to the Italian mainland...
...Stage Door Canteen (Show-business people galore; TIME, June...
...broke through OPA's you-can't-do-that rules to put over the mailing scheme, was scheduled for induction last May. But Holzer knew his own plan so much better than his superiors that OPAdministrator Prentiss Brown got his induction stayed. Fortnight ago the crucial stage of the mailing safely past, Good Bureaucrat Holzer reported to Fort Myer, Va., was assigned to the Navy as an apprentice seaman in the Seabees. Given the Navy's usual week furlough before going on active duty, Clerk Holzer turned up at the New York OPA office, spent the week...
...high-collared radio men are not so sure. Ad-libbed shows give them the aerial willies. So far, the quickness of mistress of ceremonies Arlene Francis, radio & stage actress (The Doughgirls), has stood them in good stead. One losing serviceman, who won an unanticipated $15 consolation prize, gleefully grabbed the microphone and advised his favorite bartender: "Hello, Clyde, set 'em up down there!" Miss Francis recovered with: "He means Maxwell House Coffee, of course...