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Word: tails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...central figure of the story; as Lawson, Van Johnson proves that in addition to having a deceptively easy manner, this gentleman can really act. Phyllis Thaxter, a relatively new lady of the screen, delivers a genuinely convincing performance in the part of Lawson's young wife. Lawson's tail-gunner, Robert Walker, again portrays Robert Walker and again well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 1/5/1945 | See Source »

...like that all night. There must have been a buzz bomb or a piloted plane raid somewhere every five minutes. The next day in a jeep we saw the tail flame on one robomb overhead suddenly go out and then the big frame of the bomb dove down on us in perfect silence, an inhuman Moloch coming to devour us. We threw ourselves to the ground and it burst nearby, breaking all the windows but not hurting anyone. I went to a café where I had been the first American three months previously and was kissed and embraced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: RETREAT IN BELGIUM | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

...would say, is classed as small but heavy, tannish color with white markings, hair similar to a collie's, had on broad, brown leather, brass-studded collar, wags tail in curve over back most of time. His habits are shaking hands with everybody, and with his left holds hands; also sits up and climbs a stepladder. His name is Rubanof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1944 | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

...McGuffin is a small animal with a long, yellow, spotted tail, used for hunting tigers in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 18, 1944 | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

...time later waves got over the target, the Japs had come to and begun to fight. But only one Superfort went down; a Jap Tony (single-engined fighter) crashed into its tail and fell with it. Another B-29 crash-landed at sea with engine trouble, but the crew got out in rubber rafts and was picked up by Navy rescuers within 24 hours. Said Rosie O'Donnell: "One of the easiest missions I've been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Beginning | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

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