Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...torn Yellow River valley, "China's Sorrow" threatened to burst the dikes held by both armies. The alarmed Red radio mixed propaganda with its pleading: "It is impossible to complete dike repair work because of constant Nationalist raids . . . We request Nationalist troops and air forces to cease their obstruction...
Walter ("Death Valley Scotty") Scott, the West's most publicized "desert rat," was up & around again at 70-odd after a routine encounter with a rattlesnake. Struck on the thumb, Scotty doctored himself: he yanked the snake off, slashed the wound, applied serum from his handy kit, trotted home to live...
Down in the Valley (Sat. 3 p.m., NBC). Radio premiere of Kurt Weill's American folk opera...
...Roots (Universal-International) is a Civil War movie with an angle which will probably seem new to average ex-students of U.S. history. Adapted from James Street's bestseller, it is the story of Mississippians who refused to secede from the Union, holed up in a valley, and stuck by their guns until the guns were shot out of their hands. Another angle fully as novel to moviegoers is the Handsome Confederate Officer (Whitfield Connor). Not only is he not the soul of gallantry & honuh; he has the soul of a razorback...
...sharp volley of police carbine fire brought down the foremost runner. The last man then turned and filled the valley with the blood-tingling screams of the terrorists as he wildly emptied his Luger in our direction. Two detectives, firing at close range, pumped 15 shots into him. His head was nearly severed from his neck when he fell...