Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nelson, Mr. Bard, Lieut. General William Knudsen, War Department's Robert Patterson, the Maritime Commission's leathery Admiral Land into the breach. To a man they deplored stoppages, no matter how small. But their main point: the Smith Bill would cause an uprising in labor, provoke disunity, wreck the war effort...
Destruction is one aim. A guerrilla learns how to derail and wreck trains, blow up tanks, destroy planes on the ground, dynamite bridges. He steals at night into the middle of an enemy motor lorry park, removes sparkplugs, drops an iron bolt into the engine, puts the plug back and steals away with the satisfaction of knowing that the engine will be ruined when someone tries to start it in the morning. Or he drops sugar lumps or pours linseed oil into a gas tank, which will immobilize a car by the time it has run four miles...
Research. In Alexander City, Ala., a man tried to wreck a passenger train by laying a timber on the track. Arrested by the FBI, he explained that a friend had told him such a thing was possible and he just wanted...
...temperamental Turas fit perfectly into the stock company's plot to keep information from the Gestapo that would wreck the Polish underground movement. She dallies with the informer (Stanley Ridges), who dies melodramiably onstage as his killers raise the curtain on their bombed and abandoned theater; he undertakes the role of his life by impersonating the dead spy. He is doing well when his vanity pricks him to ask the Gestapo head his opinion of Tura, the pre-war actor. Growls the Gestapoman: "What he did to Shakespeare, we are now doing to Poland...
Marion Sommer started life in middle-class Vienna; toured Germany as a violinist until she ruined her wrist in a train wreck; helped get out a Socialist news paper in South Germany until the outbreak of World War I; took lovers, of whom the best one fell in Belgium; befriended a lonely archduchess and nursed and under-ate throughout the war; had two children, one by a man who was not her husband; beheld and took part in the miseries of German post-war democracy; was sent to Soviet Russia as a skillful toymaker and there married a U.S. industrialist...