Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Relax. It was 5 in the afternoon before MacWilliams had hustled the second load of soldiers off his EUR-46 at Nanking's military airfield. Soon he was cruising back over the Yangtze Valley rice paddies toward Shanghai. Flicking on the automatic pilot, he leaned back and hung one leg over the arm of his pilot's seat. "One thing you learn fast out here," he said, "and that's how to relax. You just have to put the plane up there, snap on the auto pilot and sit back. It's the only...
...Edward L. Doheny, widow of one of the principals in the Teapot Dome oil scandal of the 20s, agreed to sell her one-fourth interest in California's Coalinga Nose, Pleasant Valley and Guijarral Hills oilfields. Price: $43 million. Buyer: Tide Water Associated...
...Young and Fair (by N. Richard Nash; produced by Vinton Freedley in association with Richard Krakeur) deals with life at a fashionable junior college for girls. And there's considerable life to deal with, for behind its trim ivied walls Brook Valley harbors more problems than an arithmetic book...
...Young and Fair has a real sense of how thorny and bewildering life can be: an endless emotional seesaw, a constant moral crossroads. It understands, too, how snobbish institutions like Brook Valley help strangle decent impulses. Unfortunately it has not let bad enough alone, but has gone at ticklish human problems with the red hot pincers of melodrama, and has so loaded itself down with wiles and theatrics that it finally caves in. There is so much plot that there is no real plight; the words, like the deeds, smack at times of garish melodrama...
When the sun had dropped below the horizon and a white ground mist had crawled slowly up the valley floor along the black line of the Lunghai railroad, Li telephoned an order to his artillery commanders. Within a few minutes two spots in the valley blazed with the flash of cannon fire; tracers from the 37-mm. guns on Li's tanks cut red streaks through the blackness as they arched in a slow trajectory like monstrous lighted clay pigeons. Less frequently the huge muzzle flash of 105-mm. guns ballooned from the plain, hung for an instant, then...