Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faced with another year of sloshing through mud ooze and runwater, the Society phoned the Cambridge Public Works Department and issued a formal complaint. Commissioner William R. McMenimen replied that he would look at the 12-foot strip this morning and decide whether to cover it with a stone-dust fill...
...TIME, June 6). As far away as Taranto, a businessman planned to make a killing with beer bottles made in the shape of St. Peter's basilica. (Rome's patent office frowned on the idea.) Police clamped down on a photographer's ingenious gadget: a strip of photographs of the Pope making the sign of the cross; when slipped through the hand, the device would give its owner the sensation of personally receiving the Pope's blessing...
...cubic yards of concrete. The mammoth concrete piers on which the main truss rests go down some 83 feet below the water line--making these huge abutments the largest of their kind in the country. Dozens of homes were transported intact away from the 60 foot strip that the bridge's approaches carve through Chelsea and Charlestown. In many respects the engineering was equally as remarkable as in the construction of the John Hancock building. And for all the danger that operating at such heights meant, only one worker was killed during the entire...
Along with "White Heat" is "Counter Punch," the Metropolitan's latest Joe Palooka offering. If you enjoy watching a pair of windmills rabbit-punch each other interminably, this is for you. The protagonist of Ham Fisher's fair-haired comic strip is played by one Joe Kirkwood Jr., who says few words and keeps pretty much to himself. Mr. Kirkwood has recently been in court regarding the alleged paternity of a Worcester girl's small children, and his mindprobably was on other things when he made the movie...
Suspense (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS-TV). The Comic Strip Murder, with Lili Palmer...