Word: steals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...working officer in the U.S. Army. It was Beedle Smith who coordinated the entire invasion planning. TIME Correspondent Charles Wertenbaker called him "driving, determined, devoted, and occasionally furious." Eisenhower called him the best chief of staff in the world, and Monty said quite openly that he would like to steal...
Then, for almost four months, Bob Davidson fought his own war against the Germans. From eyewitnesses, he collected detailed robomb data and even drawings. Working with the F.F.I, he cut telephone wires, stretched ropes across highways to trap German dispatch riders. He raided German guard posts to steal guns and documents. "We'd steal explosives and carry them away in sacks. Two or three days later a bridge would blow...
Jose Ferrer, playing the wily villain of the play, Iago, threatens at various moments to steal the show from Robeson. He portrays with evil genius the wicked shrewdness and the twisted mind that produces the tragedy of "Othello" by mastering the simple strength of the Moor. By a crook of the finger, a clearing of the throat, a lift of the eyebrow, Ferrer probes the depths of the villain's complicated character more thoroughly than could a less capable actor by an entire speech...
...wore on, the beleaguered paratroops, under merciless enemy pressure, began to steal glum looks at their watches. At 12:14 a weary officer muttered: "They'll never make it now." At that moment, through the crash and rattle of gunfire and mortar shells, came a distant skirling of bagpipes, the Commandos' signal. A paratroop bugler answered with "Defaulters,"* indicating that the road immediately ahead had Germans on it, and that the first Commando-men should go around them...
...Radio, the press's light-swift competitor, got its biggest break and made the most of it (see RADIO). As it almost always must, radio got the jump on the Big Story. Then it proceeded to steal the show. U.S. newspapers got much of their eyewitness copy from radio reporters...