Word: zinged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pepped it up with special events in addition to regular Voice of America programs. "After Goebbels," he says, "the Germans are fed up with long propaganda tirades over the air. While the Russians continue in this way, we have borrowed heavily from U.S. broadcasting methods to put real zing in our programs...
Much of the zing is supplied by pretty, blonde Christina Ohlsen, 25, who graduated to a RIAS microphone by way of dancing school, a Nazi concentration camp and postwar German cabarets. Christina comes on the air pretending to be a newsboy, hawking the day's headlines in rhymes which frequently poke fun at the Communists. Her most popular tagline, delivered in a knowing, childish singsong, comes at the end of her report of any pompous Communist proclamation: "Das versteh' ich nicht," she says wonderingly, "das versteh' ich wirklich nicht! [That I don't understand, that...
...young lordlings who take her dancing are enthusiastic about her. One appraisal: "She's a hell of a girl-real zing!" Speculation on her possible marriage is widespread in Britain. Current favorite: the Marquess of Blandford ("Sonny"), eldest son of the Duke of Marlborough; Sonny wears a tophat with as much éclat as his father brings to catching raspberries in his mouth (TIME...
...Braves (they hadn't won a pennant in 34 years). Pepperpot Eddie Stanky, a refugee from Durocher's Brooklyn, added spark to the infield before breaking an ankle fortnight ago, which will keep him out of the lineup for 60 days. Outfielder Tommy Holmes put zing into the batting order. Southworth didn't seem to be worried about Durocher's new Giants, or Shotton's new Dodgers-only about his old alma mater, the St. Louis Cardinals, "who stand out above us all. Wow, that's a beautiful ball team...
...civic center will rise and the whole city will be spanned by super-express highways already designed by New York's equally energetic Park Commissioner Robert Moses. His opponents call Chep "Little Caesar," "Big Head" and "The Kid Mayor," but they have learned to respect his punch and zing...