Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...responsible for lowering French plane production to 38 planes a month in 1937; that after the signing of the Berlin-Moscow pact French Communists sullenly sabotaged the defense industry; that the battalion of Communists in General Corap's Ninth Army caused the German break-through by turning tail as soon as the Nazis appeared...
Seasoned Director Sam Wood (Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Our Town) turns tail on his recent fragile work to make of Rangers of Fortune the most thrilling and funny movie brawl of the current Western craze. Without losing a gasp of suspense, he has fashioned his free-lance rangers into characters of such ludicrous gallantry, bravado and rough-&-tumble efficiency as to make his tale a classic parody on every horse opera ever produced. But with the technique of a master storyteller he inserts enough sex, sentiment and sock to keep his yarn well outside the bounds of buffoonery...
...astronomical meeting at Wellesley, Mass., Dr. Kuiper pictured star material rushing from the larger of the Beta Lyrae pair into the smaller at speeds around 200 miles per second-so fast that some of it is hurled clear beyond the small star to form a tail like a comet's. As the stars revolve the tail is dragged around behind them, like a lagging feather...
...fill in wherever he is needed the most; at present that appears to be the fullback spot. Bill Brown will give him what little relief he needs. George Heiden is firmly entrenched in the blocking quarterback position, and Charley Spreyer and Fran Lee will round out the backfield at tail and wingback respectively...
...Hold each by the tail while stirring in rich batter, then fry. . . ." The Japs firmly believe that they have the world by the tail, especially when smearing on the rich batter of trade promises to stir up appeasement talk and dangling mythical profits from war materials as bait which we have swallowed hook-line-and-sinker for nine years, ". . . then...