Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were shocked a few days ago to read that Mayor LaGuardia proposes to strip the New York parks of all things metal in an ill-advised war-aid gesture, saying that the War Department will replace them with newly won war relics...
Stalingrad's fate depended upon the success of such fighters. There were no natural defenses. Between the Don and Volga elbows, a strip from 45 to 80 miles wide, the plain rises imperceptibly from the west to east until it reaches about 240 ft. above sea level, then falls away sharply in a few miles to the Volga, which at Stalingrad is 40 ft. below sea level.* The few ravines dividing the plain are knee-deep brooks. There are no forests such as help to screen Moscow. The Nazis had merely to cross the plain between two rivers. Sprawling...
...Paramount, where he discovered Cary Grant, Margo, Gladys Swarthout, many another. Sniffing a hit in Clarence Day's Father sketches, he tied up the stage rights, commissioned Lindsay & Crouse to write the play. His last chore before entering the Army will be to produce their new one, Strip for Action, which reaches Broadway late this month...
...horseback riding; on stage, she seemed equally brimful of health. As Brünnhilde, she surprised and delighted operaphiles by leaping astride her horse and galloping off in an almost unheard-of concurrence with Wagner's stage directions. Less in character, though a triumph, was her startlingly realistic strip tease as Salome...
...William Faulkner's younger brother" is not likely to be called that much longer. Forty-year-old John Faulkner has quite a South of his own, and his own way of telling about it. He knows how to give social history the easy clarity of a good comic strip, the human resonance of a good novel. His first book, Men Working (TIME, Aug. 11, 1941), was a tragicomedy about poor white farmers, brought to town and stranded there by WPA. Dollar Cotton is the life story of a Cotton King, Otis Town...