Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chairs. One of the bitterest blows of a bitter German week was the sudden appearance, east of the Latvian border, of stocky, limping General Andrei Yeremenko, seven-times-wounded hero of Stalingrad, Smolensk, the Crimea. Between Drissa and Pskov, quiescent up to last week, lay the last thin strip of Soviet territory still in German hands. Attacking on this 100-mile front, Yeremenko made gains up to 25 miles. On the narrow Issa River, the Germans blew up their ferries and crossings, but Yeremenko's doughty men swarmed across on small boats, rafts and logs...
Burke kidded and rawhided them into battle shape, turned his engines at 31 knots, dressed each ship with a new in-signe: the "Little Beaver," a character from Artist Fred Harman's comic strip Red Ryder...
...questionnaire also showed that some 20 men had been present for over a dozen performances. One man was even an usher at the strip palace for six months, and a question mentioning the ideal location of the theatre (half-way between the Charlestown Navy Yard and Harvard Square) was entered on a Geography 1 exam...
Married. Sergeant Skeezix Allison Wal let, 23, foundling son of Walt Wallet, Frank O. King's comic-strip character be loved by millions; and Nina Clock, 22, his boyhood sweetheart; both for the first time; in Gasoline Alley...
Root, all business, asked for 1,500 gallons of aviation fuel, tools to repair the engine, and a strip to be leveled so we could take...