Word: strung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mild-mannered plugger, Murphy has no hobbies except work, has built his entire reputation within the Burlington system. Before joining the Burlington in 1914, he strung telephone lines, later worked as a laborer, station helper and agent for the old Iowa Central Railroad. After a noncombat stint as an airplane pilot in World War I, he came back to the "Q" as a division engineer and toiled faithfully at assorted jobs, touching every rung on the ladder as he climbed. If hard work could keep the "Q" highballing, Harry Murphy...
Pinpoints & Planning. A harassed, high-strung veteran of 34 years at City Press, "Gersh" starts his $3O-a-week cubs as "ink monkeys" in the back room, running the duplicating machine. Gradually he teams them up with reporters covering police beats, courts, hospitals and public buildings, finally puts them on their own. From Gersh and City Editor Larry Mulay young reporters learn to turn out a story that is fast, straight and complete...
Married. Ann Todd, 39, high-strung blonde British cinemactress (The Seventh Veil, One Woman's Story"); and David Lean, 41, high-strung British cinema director (Brief Encounter, Great Expectations, One Woman's Story*); each for the third time; in London...
...train chugged through Potsdam, past the tall pine trees that shade the Soviet Headquarters. When I sat down in Heinz Depper's compartment, he was looking at a big Red banner strung across a main street. The sign said: "Vote 'Ja' for democracy." It was part of a propaganda campaign for the Communist People's Congress "elections" this week...
Inexorably, the Red pincers tightened around Shanghai. Inside the shrinking Nationalist lines, sweating soldiers and coolies dug trenches, strung barbed-wire barricades, sowed "dragon's teeth"-thick rows of sharpened bamboo stakes pointed toward the approaching enemy. If a stand were made at all, it would be made inside a belt of defense that extended 30 miles from the city's teeming center...