Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bombed by the Nazis in Norway until his teeth chattered-sizzled with the Aussies in the sands of Libya-flew with British bombers from Greek fields when they raided the Italians at Brindisi. After that he covered the Greek campaign from the fighting in the Albanian mountains to the tragic evacuation of the Australians and the British from the Greek ports. Hell-bent for more, he was on his way to report the Allied occupation of Syria when a truck got out of control and did something no bomb or bullet had been able to do-invalided him home...
...cakes cooked with brandy. Last week 2,250,000 Norwegians (out of 3,000,000) suffered from malnutrition. Hitler's Gauleiter, Josef Terboven, had flatly announced that he did not care if thousands of Norwegians starved. The Germans confiscated cattle, whale meat, the herring catch, potatoes. Starvation, as tragic as that in Greece, confronted the descendants of Vikings...
...Theatre's plans for the coming season. The company isn't repertory any more, for it will present stock for two weeks at a time. The group has announced that comedy will be the main fare this year, but contradicts its own rule by scheduling Eugene O'Neill's tragic "Outward Bound" as the next presentation...
...sway, and pirouette in the center of the floor while a score of swan-maidens in traditional, white chees cloth play charades in the background. Perfection that "Swan Lake" may be, the show was stolen by this season's newcomer, "Pillar of Fire." It took this super-choreographic and tragic ballet to really rouse the audience, but even the dowagers stood up in the boxes and clapped for encore after encore. And the colorful "Bluebeard" which made a one hour sprint to the finish of the show couldn't efface the effect on the Schoenberg masterpiece. Startlingly crotic despite...
...last month the 19 "lepers" were told that doctors had at last figured out what was wrong: they were suffering from X-ray burns. Here & there a wife wept quietly. But most of the men felt better at once, though they were victims' of the most tragic blunder in U.S. industrial medicine...