Word: lures
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bock's tanks outnumbered Timoshenko's, sometimes as much as 4-to-1, the Russians had laid ambushes. Along a two-mile front they had sunk half a dozen light tanks into the earth as pillboxes. Three or four other tanks were left free to attempt to lure German tanks into the line of fire, with some success. But still the Germans pushed...
...fourbit theaters, the bad girl of show business has been set up, with diamonds in her hair, at the aristocratic Music Box. The chorus is beautiful and abundant; the costumes are glamorous and scanty. Bouncing Bobby Clark is there for laughs, and Burlesqueen Gypsy Rose Lee is there for lure. Tropical Georgia Sothern is there for the really intense customers, and fat, shameless Carrie Finnell for the really incorrigible ones. Star and Garter is a riot of off-color...
...acted accordingly. Thus some U.S. refiners last week put customers back on an easy-payment basis (31 days instead of hard cash), wired buyers to come and get it. California's giant Spreckels Sugar went a step further, cut prices ten points to 5-35? a lb. to lure customers. Finally OPA told Western beet-sugar outfits to stop shipping sugar east. Unofficial reason: the East has enough...
Dismissing the fond notion that the Third Reich can easily be starved into submission, the picture aptly illuminates the Nazis' use of food to control their conquered peoples. In stricken cities food is used to lure skilled workers to the Nazi war industries; in other places food is removed so that Jews and unwanted nationals will die. Those who play ball with the Nazis eat better than those who don't. The Nazis know that the undernourished are too numb to revolt...
...editors are not free agents in matters "relating to politics or religion." Said ex-Editor Henson: "Folks who excuse the Oxford Group by saying 'the play was all right' aren't acquainted with Georgia mules. A Georgia mule will be perfectly nice for a year to lure the trusting plowman squarely behind his heels for a kickoff...