Word: wham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solve. While working on George Abbott's Best Foot Forward, Walker was approached by Gene Kelly, who staged the dances for the show. Kelly had definite ideas. Roared he: "The orchestra should go de-bump-bump-bump, wha-ah, crash, zip, bang, de-bump, de-bump, bzzzz, wham!" It's got to be terrific, an earthquake, a tidal wave, the end of the world!" Walker nodded quietly, went back to his office and came up with the Paramount-Public-Fox finish. Kelly was beside himself with delight...
About them Texas' Tom Connally, Foreign Relations Committee chairman, was apprehensively outspoken: "They are just laying for the peace treaty to come, and then WHAM! That's what they'll do. This is just a foreshadowing of what we can expect." He spoke with cause: in the next two years Democrats will have 57 Senators -not a treaty-making majority even with every one in line...
...nitrate for artillery shells and aerial bombs), smokeless powder (long in use as a propellant), tetryl (used in shell boosters to provoke the detonation of laggardly TNT or amatol). Least sensitive of all the Ordnance powders is ammonium pictrate, which is used in armor-piercing projectiles because it can wham through steel without going off at first impact...
...audience that his extra work came out of him and not out of the city. He ridiculed critics who complain of his Washington visits: "I saw the city needed this. . . . The bankers wanted to charge me 6%, but I could get the money in Washington for 3%. So, wham!" (He ducked his head, took a track runner's on-your-mark position, dashed madly across the stage, pulled up puffing but triumphant.) "So, away to Washington I go again!" The bigwigs looked pained. The crowd loved...
Chen Cheng had the good political fortune to graduate in the last class at Paoting and teach the first class at Wham...