Word: targets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be the biggest, noisiest New Year's Eve in a long, long time. Manhattan's bars would stay open until dawn, U.S. roadhouses would be neon-lighted after dark years, and the stiff white shirt front would be back once more, a gleaming and irresistible target for females with an urge to write with lipstick. Between the last tick of 1945 and the first tock of 1946, U.S. citizens would consume enough alcohol to float a rinkful of ice, and the thin, happy bleat of paper horns would echo from time zone to time zone in pleased...
...doubts. He had none about Kimmel. Other admirals have testified to their doubts that war would come, their uncertainties over where the Japs might strike. Not Kelly Turner. He had thought, as early as July 1941, that war was inevitable. He not only thought that Hawaii was a "probable" target, but also that the attack would come...
...generally as just a waste of time and fuel. During McVay's trial, Captain Glynn R. Donaho, submarine skipper with a long list of kills, told the court flatly that zigzagging is "of no value" in evasive action. In ten seconds, he said, he could correct for a target's change of course. The dubious protection that zigzagging gives a ship is offset by the fact that it allows slower-moving subs to keep...
This was whopping praise, in a land where Shakespeare is almost a trade and understatement almost a trademark. The target was 43-year-old Actor Ralph Richardson in the Old Vic's smash revival of Henry IV, with Sybil Thorndike and Laurence Olivier in supporting roles...
Harry Truman, Gridiron Target No. 1 for the first time, saw a newsman dressed in double-breasted grey suit, handkerchief sticking from his breast pocket, singing Wanting You to Joe Stalin. What the real Harry Truman had to say in reply was-by Gridiron custom-off the record...