Word: starring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until fresh forces arrived. He had so many close calls that fellow officers named him "Lucky" Cates. Even so, he was wounded six times and gassed once, came home with a Navy Cross, a D.S.C. (with oak leaf cluster), a Croix de Guerre (with two palms and a gold star...
...Tyrone Power, in Rome, had hung up on Lana Turner when she telephoned him from Manhattan. "Lana walks around the Reservoir at Central Park at night," Elsa went on nervously, "sometimes until 2 or 3 in the morning. This is a real tip to MGM, which has a valuable star in Miss Turner and should watch after...
...Over at the New York Journal, William Randolph Hearst fumed at the new weapon introduced into his bitter circulation war with Pulitzer. In October Hearst announced his own new color section: "eight pages of iridescent polychromous effulgence that makes the rainbow look like a piece of lead pipe." Its star attraction: The Yellow Kid; Hearst had lured Outcault away. To replace him, Pulitzer hired George Luks, then a little-known painter, to draw a Yellow Kid for the World. The ensuing circulation battle of the kids gave the U.S. a new name for sensational papers-"yellow journalism...
...last move were a military offensive. The specially strengthened trailer, weighing 60 tons with the mirror and its wooden case, moved at five to ten miles an hour. At first the roadsides were empty, but as the news traveled, crowds began to gather. At Irvine, near Santa Ana, a star-minded school principal lined up his pupils to watch the parade pass...
...three trucks groped through it fearfully, for a skid might have rolled both trucks and mirror down the steep mountainside. Then, as the mirror neared the observatory dome-shining like frosted silver and big as a railroad roundhouse-a shaft of brilliant sunlight broke through the clouds. The nearest star, the sun, was friendly...