Word: tripods
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...roar could be heard for several miles, as huge cakes of ice broke apart, flapped up, stood on edge, ground into each other, crashed and thundered. Most of the 300 citizens (mostly Indians) of Nenana, Alaska, made for the river, to watch a fragile candy-striped tripod anchored in the ice. There was $125,000 riding on that little pole, in bets from soldiers and sourdoughs all over Alaska...
...happened. The candy-striped tripod spun over, crushed like a matchstick. It was payoff time in Alaska's famed Nenana Ice Pool, the world's biggest gamble...
...also be art, Claudette Colbert (an artistic photographer) ventures deep into a vehicular tunnel and is confronted by brusque, briskety Fred MacMurray (a sandhog). Stripped to the belt, bawling and brawling with his fellow sandhogs, Cinemactor MacMurray strikes Cinemactress Colbert as so photogenic that she instantly sets her tripod for him. But Mr. MacMurray will have no truck with Miss Colbert's arty shallowness. Says he: "If you want to buy some muscles, go out and get yourself a cheap cut of beef...
...Nips immediately scampered into the mountains and met head on with our [other] force coming down. They put up a very nice fight but made the mistake of trying one of those banzai charges . . . our machine guns just chopped them to pieces. One of our men lost the tripod of his machine gun. He picked it up like one of those Victor McLaglen movies and fired...
China. A Chinese spokesman said: "When one leg of the tripod is broken, it will naturally have a demoralizing effect on the other two. . . . Tojo will follow the fate of Mussolini...