Word: torch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russian troops retreating through the Caucasus have put the torch to the wheat fields and granarles of the Kuban valley, one of the richest farm areas in the country, Moscow announced Sunday, and the Germans claimed to have captured both Maikop and Krasnodar, pipe line and refinery centers of the Maikop oil fields...
Though their riveted M35 sustained some shell hits, no rivets bounced about inside. Main fault in the tanks: an incendiary bullet, stuck in the pencil-thin crevice between the revolving turret and hull, froze the turret tight. The tankers unfroze the turret with an acetylene torch. (This defect has been corrected in the newer M-45, which have a collar over the crevice...
Newport's waterworks slapped a lien on the two-million-dollar villa purchased last year by her mother for Torch Singer Gertrude Niesen, demanding $792 for excess water "used" at the villa between January and June. The pipes in the mansion had burst in February and poured out more than a million gallons. The waterworks also asked an $83 advance for the coming year...
...doing a job like this?" Says The Raven, without batting an eye: "I feel fine." Before The Raven finally meets his maker and cashes in his sins at the Hays office, he has punctured a number of other citizens, both deserving and undeserving, met straight-haired Veronica Lake (a torch-singing magician employed...
...both top-notch, though you may find a trifle too much talk in the second act. The times are in the traditional Rodgers and Hart pattern, but not so repetitions as they have been in the past. "Nobody's Heart Belongs to Mc" is a fine and mellow torch number; "The Gateway of the Temple of Minerva" is a hot boogic woogie special. And "Careless Rhapsody" is another song you'll be whistling soon...