Word: wizards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flying Officer Kyte, a feet-off-the-ground burlesque of Britain's wartime flyboys, complete with Samsonian mustaches and a rich flow of RAFfish lingo ("Bang on, wacko, wizard show, I care for that, HA, HA!"). Characteristic Kyte joke: "Whale of a party, sir. I went as radar ... a picture of Queen Anne and a placard pinned to my trousers." Barker: "What did it say?" Kyte: "Dead on the beam...
...relationship between chuan and neng-power and ability. Kung Keng said that these concepts were properly defined only in the specific constitutional directives of Kuomintang Founder Sun Yatsen. A tired Young China partyman disrespectfully shouted: "This is no place for orations." Kung Keng, who looks like a medieval wizard, but has a long revolutionary record, paled with anger. His supporters hurled abuse at his critics...
Dick Harlow deserves as much credit for this one as any member of the squad. The wizard of Soldiers Field not only employed eight defenses to befuddle Purple blockers; but it was he also who, after thoroughly accustomizing the Crusaders to L formation power plays, suddenly, at the start of the second half, shifted to the T formation, thus enabling the Crimson to rack up the winning tally...
Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler's financial wizard, who had broken with the regime and wound up in a concentration camp...
Hiram W. Evans, big-time Georgia contractor and onetime Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, got a bill from the Treasury for $257,763.27 in back taxes...