Word: strung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fearing the wrong kind of deeds, Scotland Yard strung a guard of 27 policemen around the Japanese Embassy, whose staff is awaiting exchange. After Viscount Hisaakira Kano, ex-manager of London's Yokohama Specie Bank, told a reporter the atrocity story was "so much propaganda," Scotland Yardmen bundled him off with one suitcase and a fur rug to the Isle of Man internment camp...
Methods of ambush are important. A wire cable strung across a road at an angle will slide a motorcycle off into the ditch, where the cyclist can be slugged and searched. "Messages may be glued to the soles of the feet. Comb the hair; look between the toes." All kinds of decoys may be used to stop cyclists and staff cars or to make them swerve and crash: a couple of baby carriages covered with sacking, a pair of old auto headlamps, operated on batteries, set in the middle of the road. "To attract the closest attention of enemy...
This gantlet-run through the wilderness is the thread on which the picture's propa ganda pearls are strung. Best of them is a notable performance by Anton Walbrook as head of a Hutterite sect, of Germanic origin, who practice a kind of Christian communism in Canada's vast wheatlands. To Lieut. Portman's guttural plea that the Hutterites join their Nazi brothers in the war for Nordic supremacy, the leader replies: "Most of us are Germans, but we are not your brothers...
...languorous trade wind drifted across the water. Storms broke on the dark crest of Diamond Head, stalked down the swift slope to the harbor. But Hawaii was not the same. Alone in the great quiet of the Pacific, 2,100 miles from any continent, Hawaii waited. The tension was strung tight as harp wires...
Most popular and distinctive of samba instruments is the large, roundish cabaca, a gourd around which rattling beans are strung on loose strings. Other noisemakers include the reco-reco (sounds like running a stick along a picket fence), the cuica (a dull squeak). Above them the syncopated samba tunes run their jerky course...