The '40s
In '45, a U.S. bomber crashed into this N.Y. landmark's 79th floor
the Empire State Building
Venice's taxis
gondolas
Part of the body used to dance on "pointe"
toe
Raw fish dish
sushi
Jim Henson coined this word from a combination of "marionette" & "puppet"
muppet
Rudy Vallee recorded it in '31 & Sam played it again in Casablanca
"As Time Goes By"
A small boat used to move big boats
tug
Tchaikovsky's fowl aquatic ballet
"Swan Lake"
David Janssen's private eye with the last name Orwell
Harry O
Body builder Charles Atlas offered to build up the physique of this Indian leader
Mahatma Gandhi
A flat-bottomed boat propelled by a pole, or a 4th down football play
punt
New York City Ballet's "Mr. B"
George Balanchine
Known originally for motorcycles, this Japanese company now operates on auto plant in Ohio
Honda
Yancy's fancy pistol
derringer
German for "lightning war"
blitzkrieg
The arrangement of dance movements
choreography
The ancient art of paper folding
origami
Cook Graham Kerr was known as this
The Galloping Gourmet
Formerly England's Sadler's Wells Ballet
the Royal Ballet
Western name for towering tsunamis, clocked at up to 500 MPH
tidal waves
From the Swahili word for "doctor", the show featured a cross-eyed lion
Daktari