Word: strung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supplies northward into China and returning with crack, seasoned Chinese troops, drawn from Chiang Kai-shek's elite divisions and equipped with rifles, bayonets, hand grenades, light & heavy machine guns, trench mortars and automatic pistols. Many of them were already in action on the Salween front. New arrivals strung out protectively along the Burma Road north of Lashio or skirmished with the Jap along the Thai border...
...concerned with the psychological fascinations of foul play in a secluded house in Victorian England. The old ladies, three of 'em, are boarders in a rooming house, each passing away her last few years alone. A conflict of personalities between the sadistic, half-crazed Agatha Payne and her high-strung, fragile neighbor, May Beringer, provides the substance of the drama. Starting slowly, the play generates suspense in an ever-heightening increase in tension, without benefit of creaky floorboards and family ghosts. And when it has reached its telling and climactic crisis, which very properly coincides with the limits of audience...
Died. Cinemactress Carole Lombard, 32; in a plane crash near Las Vegas, Nev. A high-strung, energetic blonde with a charmer's face and a talent for comedy, she had been a cinemactress since childhood. Born Jane Peters in Fort Wayne, Ind., she moved to Los Angeles at seven, made her cinedebut at eleven. She went into Mack Sennett comedies after an auto crash scarred her face, a few years later began appearing in romantic roles, emerged in recent years as an outstanding comedienne (My Man Godfrey, Nothing Sacred, Mr. and Mrs. Smith). Married to William Powell...
...sight and set off, like a Japanese print of a Strength Through Joy outing, down the coast. At the mouth of the Perak, near Telok Anson, they sent a large launch as a kind of decoy into the estuary. A British patrol boat approached to investigate. The Japanese strung a line of laundry on the boat, to give the impression of being on a pleasure cruise. When the British vessel got close by, the Japanese opened fire. Mean while the main Japanese flotilla proceeded 14 miles farther south, landed safely...
During the Civil War, 39 leaders of the hostile Minnesota Sioux were hanged. Dr. Mayo carted off the body of an ugly brave named Cut Nose, and after dissecting him, he strung together his skeleton, used it to teach his young sons anatomy. About this time, he mortgaged his house to buy a microscope...