Word: torch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...graduate, they report, is torch-singer Libby Holman's secretary, while another compiles tax reports for a fiduciary trust company and loves...
...attacked by extremists of both sides. Once his students went out on strike in protest against him; once Arabs set upon a car bearing two of his guests and killed the driver. But he has never let his university become a center of violence ("this vain doctrine, this pagan torch"). From his own turbulent life, he has learned that the future of the Hebrew University lies elsewhere-"not by might, nor by force, but by [the] spirit...
Tough Enough. Eighteen representatives of the two trustee nations met in Seoul's Duk Soo Palace. Their surroundings seemed a continent away-Corinthian columns, mirrored doors and long French Republic draperies. On the walls flickered tiny replicas of the torch that the Statue of Liberty holds. Outside, azaleas bloomed...
Ruth came out of Nebraska in the early days of the Scott Fitzgerald era, sang briefly in Chicago, made a stack of phonograph records that became standard fraternity-house equipment across the U.S. For the next ten years, she was the nation's leading torch singer, rivaled only by the late Helen Morgan (with whom she once split top billing in the Follies). Coonskin-clad Yale students mobbed her, Broadway toasted her, Hollywood beckoned. She was the top singer in radio when a flap-eared stripling named Crosby was singing in a trio...
...with Germany, the U.S. agreed to ship Weygand limited supplies of coal, sugar, tea, etc. In return, Weygand let U.S. vice consuls work with French Resistance leaders and report in cipher to Washington. In this and other ways the ground was prepared for the military invasion (Operation Torch) the following year...