Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old R.A.F. veteran who in 1940 commanded British squadrons in Greece, later led R.A.F. forces in Ceylon. In an invasion of the Continent, Air Vice Marshal D'Albiac's new force would prepare the way for the attack, as the Allies did in the last stage of the Tunisian battle, with blasting assaults on Axis ground defenses in the path of landing Allied troops...
Facts to be Faced. To set the convention's stage, vinegary Labor M. P. Aneurin Bevan wrote an open letter in his weekly Tribune "To Any Labor Delegate...
...river front of drab wooden huts had become a gaudy stage. Against the mighty backdrop of brown and grey gorges and leaping yellow waters the lean boatmen hopped and screamed like jays. Above their ragged blue trousers they wore emblazoned shirts. They had daubed yellow pigment on the heads of their boy helpers. They had oiled the keels of their long craft to maker them swifter. Now they waited for the starting signal...
...film's patriotism is as torrential as its talent and may give civilians as well as servicemen a drowning sensation (examples in song: Marching Through Berlin; The Machine-Gun Song). But Stage Door Canteen is not only a big show with something for almost everybody, but also a potentially fine period piece recording a regiment of wartime show people and their uniformed audience...
...numbers, called Spirit of Democracy, might serve as a touching, rousing symbol of the whole of entertainment in World War I. It worked up through a lather of militant gestures (bayoneting, grenade-lobbing, etc.) to a disconcerting climax in which a girl in black tatters tottered onto the stage beseeching aid and, after suitable gyrations, flopped dead...