Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though help was going to Finland, it was not going fast enough. Two detachments of Swedish "volunteers" arrived under 71 -year-old General Ernst Linder, but Italy was reported to be delaying effective help because of German objections. Desperately the Helsinki Government cabled its military attaché in Washington, Colonel Per Zilliacus, to buy planes and send them quickly. Colonel Zilliacus was having a hard time, for most U. S. plants were clogged with French and British orders. And the Finns' greatest need, artillery and small arms, was even harder to buy in a warring world. A good example...
...wrote chummily of Nazis as high as No. 2 ("Man, what a picture it is to see Hermann's birds soaring swiftly overhead! Boy, are they fast!") and sneeringly of Britain's Churchill ("First Lord of the Admiralty, past master of the waves"). One night he dismissed British claims of U-boat sinkings with "Every German U-boat. . . bears the number K-9. Canine, Cat. Because every cat has nine lives...
...witness this setup, 90,000 fans squeezed into Pasadena's famed saucer last week and millions more the world over listened at their radios. Tennessee lacked Southern California's bonecrushing manpower. It had no giants like Smith and Sohn (2201b. guards), but its boys were fast, cagey and tough. Neyland, a hardbitten perfectionist, had made them the best-drilled blockers in the land...
...show opens a hit, Maney can choose his spots, reserve good stories for the big papers. With a flop, veterans like Maney don't try pleading or high-pressuring. They think fast and try stunts. Publicity stunts have turned many a tide. Anna Held's fame dates chiefly from her milk baths. Belasco strewed tanbark outside a theatre, ostensibly to cushion street noises, actually to start people talking. Lions have been let loose in hotel bedrooms, Ziegfeld girls have marched to New York's City Hall in tights...
...worn by Budd, the other by Pullman. When Pullman put out its first aluminum alloy Diesel streamliner in 1934, Budd followed in just two months with a sleek stainless steel job. These two manufacturers went right to work to show the railroads that business could be won by fast, comfortable trains with new-type accommodations for coach travelers...