Word: whisk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practice field of war, the Indian North-West Frontier, General Platt has for three years been Raid d'Amm (Arabic for General Officer Commanding) of the Sudan.In two of those years, his dark hair went white. Raid d'Amm Platt, who always carries a fly-whisk instead of the usual stick, has been something of a heretic in his handling of native troops: he cannot see why a white-skinned man should have any more modern equipment than a dusky-skinned...
Next day through a shouting, hooting mob the tumbrils brought Robespierre and 21 colleagues to a hastily erected guillotine. Unlike Danton, Robespierre said nothing even when a child, "carrying a pailful of ox's blood and a whisk broom," stepped up to Robespierre's house and sprinkled the wall. "The crowd," says Author Korngold, "howled its approval...
...screen, due to constructional troubles, these sure-fire ingredients never quite jell into good melodrama. Scenarist John Balderston's script spends so much valuable time setting the scene and building the characters, it has to whisk through Mr. Jones's horrendous visit to Samburan. A line-up of Hollywood's most finished actors, nicely guided by the delicate directional hand of John Cromwell, holds long points, like patient bird dogs, for the chills. Then in a few hurried strokes, the villains are disposed of and it is time for the clinch...
Oldest of Ogontz prizes is the "Whisk-Broom Neatness" award. To girls whose rooms are spick-&-span go silver brooms engraved: "Order is Heaven's first law." This year's 16 whisk-broom winners were applauded by many a broom-winner mother and grandma (80% of the students are related to graduates) in the audience...
...different kind of bird is the Stuka. Whereas attack bombers work on long targets over which they whisk at high speed-such as roads, crowded river fords, lines of marching men-dive bombers work on pinpoint objectives. Attack bombers rely on surprise and a paralyzing quick blow to cut down anti-aircraft resistance. Stuka pilots rely on their swift descent to avoid anti-aircraft shells, on quick pullouts and fast getaways to save their skins from machine-gun fire...