Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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M.G.M. has made much of the fact that Miss Williams and Johnson sing and dance in "Easy to Wed." Both are competent, neither will crash the Crosby-Astaire zone. The better of their two dances is accompanied by Ethel Smith on her organ, while the other has Carlos Ramirez following them around and breathing Latin love lyrics down their neeks...
Fourteen thousand was the official total. That's a lot short of capacity (around 58,000) but just a scattered few thousands around those end zone oases would have made a lot of difference in the atmosphere. Even the press box looked deserted for this opener, the earliest in Harlow's Harvard history except for a tuneup with a pre-flight eleven...
Actually, Connecticut was too close to scoring for comfort. On one pass play from the Crimson 12-yard marker, Christensen broke free in the end zone, only to have Ferrigno's pass go over his outstretched arms...
...summer long, in parks and playgrounds of the U.S. zone, some 10,000 German boys have been forgetting how to goosestep while they mastered a new sport-baseball. Egged on by G.I.s, opposing nines have knocked homers and stolen bases while frenzied fans bawled out the umpire with shouts of: "Hornochs! Faulenzer! Dieb!" (Blockhead! Bum! Crook...
...Germany's Russian zone, voters were nominally electing a slate of municipal officials. Actually, they were voting for or against the spread of Communist influence through the Russian-sponsored SED (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands-Socialist Unity Party of Germany) and deepening domination by the Russian occupiers...