Word: whiskered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lower per 1,000 hours flown in the first eight months of 1942 than it had been in the ten years from 1930 to 1940, when the Air Corps prided itself on being a smart, seasoned outfit. The fatality rate had gone up, but only by a whisker...
Halsey's conduct of his present command leaves nothing to be desired. He is professionally competent and militarily aggressive without being reckless or foolhardy. He has that rare combination of intellectual capacity and military audacity, and can calculate to a cat's whisker the risk involved in operations when successful accomplishments will bring great returns. He possesses superb leadership qualities which have earned him a tremendous following of his men. His only enemies are Japs. . . . For his successful turning back of the Jap attempt to take Guadalcanal in mid-November he has been nominated by the President...
Wayne Johnson '44, fullback, is only a whisker ahead of Tom Cowen and Paul Perkins for the starting honors, although he was second man to Don McNicol last year and played almost the entire Penn game. Wayne will not only do a good share of the ball-toting, but much of the passing...
Best sequence in Broadcast is almost straight history. Yellowed newsreel shots of the Dempsey-Willard prize fight are used for the apocryphal ringside broadcast that brings fame and riches to Oakie's cat-whisker station. They are a jolting reminder of the scorching Fourth of July in 1919 when the crop-haired Manassa Mauler, then 24, carved a world's heavyweight championship out of mountainous Jess Willard in just three bitter rounds. They are the best refashioning of history ever contrived by Producer Zanuck...
...large-scale Axis mechanized raid had been under way in Libya. It had been signalized by the resignation of Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, nearly the last of Italy's famed and tried old hands. His place was taken by General Italo Gariboldi, 62, one of Italy's old whisker-bearing generals. But the real Axis commander in Libya was now no Italian. It was Lieut. General Erwin Rommel, a Panzer expert whose appointment to Libya must have maddened the Italians: he distinguished himself against them in World War I. General Rommel apparently used one mechanized division (mostly German...