Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...assignment last week of escorting three supply ships bound for Malta through what Italy still calls Mare Nostrum ("Our Sea") but which cartoonists now label Nightmare Nostrum. It was known that what was left of the Italian Navy after Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham's brilliant aerial-torpedo stab into its main base at Taranto (TIME, Nov. 25) had scuttled for a more remote hideaway, probably Cagliari on Sardinia's south coast or Naples on the mainland. Perhaps the British keepers of the western gate of Italy's prison, under Vice Admiral Sir James Somerville, would...
...Farmers saw their $100,000 bid to the Rose Bowl vanish. At Austin, where no Texas A. & M. team has beaten Texas since 1922, the old jinx spurred a team of Longhorns that had been twice beaten this year to paralyze their old rivals with a lightning-swift stab. With Fullback Peter Layden tossing two magnificent forward passes and then plunging over the line, Texas chalked up a touchdown-that turned out to be margin enough to win the game...
Sibeliophiles may find impressive the incidental music to Belshazzar's Feast, recorded on Victor for the first time by Robert Kajanus and the London Philharmonic (M715). I find it intolerably labored and mediocre. A self-conscious stab at the sort of exotic orchestral coloring one finds in Rimsky-Korsakoff, Belshazzar's Feast purports to describe scenes at an eastern potentate's court. The first and last movements, "Oriental Procession" and "Khadra's Dance," are nothing but meaningless jumbles of sound, with no melodic interest whatsoever and very little success in evoking any imaginative picture. The middle two movements, "Night...
Significance. Britain already outnumbered the Axis in battleships, 19-to-12, allowing for the commissioning of five King George Vs and two German ships and both the Italian battleships abuilding. The stab at Taranto reduced the ratio locally from 6-to-4 in favor of Italy to 4-to-3 in favor of the British. But the action at Taranto meant a great deal more than the British gaining battle-force supremacy in the Mediterranean...
...period the Carrmen got under way, and led by Danny Poor and Buzz Sawhill they threatened the Brown nets several times, but a score wasn't in the books, for each attack was finally repulsed. During the fourth period the Bruins took over and made more than one serious stab through the Crimson defense. Owing to the sparkling work of goalie Jack Penson, none of these drives ended in scoring. The overtime period found the mud and cold telling on the players' efficiency, as their efforts became sluggish and the deadlock was not broken...