Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first issue of Yank, June 17, 1942, the comic strip G.I. Joe made its debut. . . . If anyone can offer documentary evidence of publication of the term "G.I. Joe" before June 17, 1942 I will cheerfully withdraw my claim, and offer such person an inscribed original of G.I. Joe or Private Breger...
...advances, George provides the reader with some pleasant food for bedtime though by drowning her while she gambols in the evening bath. The late Laird Cregar, Twentieth-Century Fox's discerning choice for Bone, was forced by a more puritan plot to strangle a fully-dressed wench with a strip of drapery...
Milt Caniff, erstwhile creator of Flip Corkin, Terry, Pat, and the heralded Dragon Lady, may not realize the effect his oriental strip is having on the lives of many Chase luminaries. "Pass me my third Collins while I pass out" Smith (J.E. the folks call him) searched relentlessly up and down the corridor Saturday last but could not find "the lady." He did, however, find a tattered skivvie shirt sworn by him to be the property of "Hotshot Charlie...
Other columnists and letter writers took up the protest. The New York Times lectured: "[The U.S. soldier] is never a nameless character in a comic strip, and maybe we should stop treating him as such...
Holding the Funnels. The Ardennes bulge dwindled to a strip which reached only twelve miles into Belgium at the widest point, east of Houffalize. The Germans evacuated their funnel at Houffalize, which had served its purpose, but seemed determined to hold the funnel at Saint-Vith for a few days longer. Clearing weather enabled Allied tactical pilots to take a last crack at German vehicles, of which they destroyed more than 1,000. On the south, General Patton's onrushing Third Army came within range of German guns firing from the casemates of the Westwall itself...