Word: thousands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Three thousand men & women in evening dress were sitting at tables on the great floor (at $15 a plate). Among them were virtually all the ranking officers of the Administration and all shades of local politicos, including Democratic Boss Charlie Binaggio, who had just been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury to tell what he knew about the revival of racketeering in Kansas City. Six thousand non-diners watched and applauded from the flag-bedecked balconies. An army of harried waiters served 3,000 tenderloin steaks without allowing more than minor peripheral cooling to set in-no mean achievement since...
...Manhattan last week, a bouncy brunette from Fond du Lac, Wis. (pop. 27,209) had a wonderful time. She sat entranced at Maxwell Anderson's Anne of the Thousand Days, went backstage at Ken Murray's Blackouts, listened to jazz at Bop City, danced the Charleston at a teen-age party, sipped a horse's neck (ginger ale and lemon peel) at the Stork Club, took a moonlight ride through Central Park in a convertible with the top down, and burned her tongue on a nightcap of hot chocolate at Rumpelmayer's. It was the kind...
...calmly plays the gramophone while his henchmen single their victim's flesh with hot pokers. Probably most effective and certainly most pathetic are the scenes showing the girl who was chosen to lead the band as it played the rhythms to which the whole camp marched; during all the thousand crimes which the Nazis committed to the tune of her music, she had to stand alone on her bandstand without flinching...
...thousand delegates to the World Youth and Student Festival at Budapest, August 14 to 28, heard or read these descriptions of American. This was the second such festival, dedicated to "peace, independence, democracy"; it grouped representatives from 82 national groups...
...Force. Almost all of the Navy's operations in the Pacific were tactical--knock-out-a beachhead-or-a-fleet affairs the carriers brought short-ranged planes up to where they could thoroughly work over their targets. In flying off planes which still have to light two or three-thousand miles to their targets, the required job in a lot of strategic bombing work, the carrier's real value, its ability to bring an airfield near the target, is severely...