Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This imitative hysteria was something of a comic-strip episode because of the innocent brush which occasioned it. Contrary to a long-standing agreement, 16 armed plain-clothes Japanese gendarmes had sauntered into the U. S. defense sector of Shanghai's International Settlement. U. S. Marines arrested them, disarmed them, interned them. One was permitted to telephone his headquarters. Their commander called on Marine Commander Colonel DeWitt Peck and apologized for their mistake. The men were released. The incident was apparently closed...
...weeks each September that cozy little strip of Long Island between Forest Hills and Old Westbury becomes a paradise for U. S. sport fans. At Forest Hills (except during war years) they may see the world's top-flight tennists, at Westbury the cream of the world's poloists, at Belmont the best U. S. thoroughbreds-and here & there, now & then, the world's greatest golfers...
Three years ago, in one of its periodic waves of public purification, Manhattan ordered burlesque shows not only to drape their naked cuties, but to drape themselves in an even more euphemistic name. Complying reluctantly with this ukase, the louse-opera impresarios put a little more gauze on their strip-teasers, advertised their wares as "Frolics" and "Follies." Promptly business started to sag. Even when desperate divas began to strip to their pelts again, the box office was still in the doldrums. Last week the operators of Manhattan's three remaining burlesque houses got together with union representatives, prepared...
Mussolini had gained: 1) demilitarization of a 30-mile strip along the Franco-Italian frontier; 2) demilitarization of a strip 125 miles wide along the Libyan frontier; 3) demilitarization of the French Somaliland coast and full rights to the harbor of Djibouti and the Djibouti-Addis Ababa Railway; 4) demilitarization for the duration of the war of the French naval bases at Toulon, Bizerte, Oran and Ajaccio. Regarding the surrender and demobilization of the French Army, the Italian Armistice conformed to the German. No mention was made of Nice, Savoy or Corsica, for which Italians have long clamored. So humiliating...
Meanwhile New Jersey's State Director of Relief ordered his subordinates to strip from the rolls all ablebodied, single men who are eligible for military service. His ungentle hint: the Army provides employment. Illinois's old, gentle Congressman Adolph Sabath, who has long opposed school military training, retreated so far as to favor conscription for collegians. A Gallup Poll published last week showed voters divided 50-50 on peacetime conscription; last October, they were 61% against it. Massachusetts' 38-year-old Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (an Army Reserve Captain) proposed to require six months' training...