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Word: strip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strip for Action (by Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse; produced by Oscar Serlin, Lindsay & Crouse) is a ramshackle play and an uproarious evening. Playwrights Lindsay & Crouse plunged into work with a good idea: turning loose a burlesque troupe in an army camp. To this half-tropical, half-topical brew they add colorfulness, craziness, sex and laughs-they know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Oct. 12, 1942 | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

...Feel like a gentleman of leisure. Would like a tall, sleek, beautiful brunette to bring me my coffee. . . . Scouted clearing and ran set of levels for a proposed take-off strip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Thoughts in the Jungle | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...look in the semidarkness of a bedroom they would become exclusively night prowlers. The day a woman forgets her vanity and realizes the power of uninhibited surrender, the day of the prowling male is finished and the period of man the domesticated animal begins. Total length of take-off strip-5,000 feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Thoughts in the Jungle | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...feels like Saturday. Two thousand five hundred feet of take-off strip cleared. Food delivered by parachute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Thoughts in the Jungle | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

Sept. 11-Take-off strip ready. Big day tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Thoughts in the Jungle | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

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