Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...siege the giant Enterprise had been driven back 41 miles. Steel gun shields were crushed. Catwalks were swept away as waves thundered over the flightdeck 50 feet above the water line. Water pouring through her open fo'c'sle deck split the seams of a 60-foot strip of steel bulkhead and flooded officers' quarters forward...
...support their war brides on the salaries offered to them last week decided to risk their meager savings in a repair shop. Their motto: "We tackle anything." Principals in the firm: ex-Staff Sergeant Skeezix Wallet, and his friend Wilmer Bobble of Frank O. King's famed comic strip Gasoline Alley. In their first week, Wallet & Bobble spent most of their time repairing Christmas tree lights. Total take...
This turnabout at Chicago's off-season powwow followed hard upon the minor leagues' meeting at Columbus, Ohio where Happy had been kicked around. The minors voted to strip him of his veto power over their legislation, action that would have left him crippled. The majors voted down this proposal, also scrapped a project of the minors to cut from the Commissioner's job control of the recently established $50,000 baseball promotional fund. The result: Happy was happy again. Said he: "I'm . . . not bloodied...
Corn, but No Beer. The first strip McManus did for Hearst was a slapstick called The Newlyweds. Last year old Mr. Hearst got to remembering it-even though he couldn't remember its name-and ordered the artist to resume "that strip with the baby." So, since January, the Sunday Jiggs strip has had Snookums and the Newlyweds at its top. Hearst once told McManus that "rushing the growler" was out, since subscribers in dry states might be offended to see the characters lugging cans of beer...
...subject's respiration and blood pressure. These stayed at normal levels while the suspect was answering harmless preliminary questions. But when the questions struck nearer home, the emotional effort of lying made the heart pound harder, the breathing irregular. The machine marked such telltale reactions on a moving strip of paper...