Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Herd Combat. Not on the Allied program was engagement of the German armored herds by herds of Allied tanks. Defensive warfare of position called for artillery replies to tank offensives. But such was the Germans' speed that the French command was forced to admit a war of maneuver had begun. When German Panzertruppen crossed the Albert...
Homiest touch: the float bearing Elmer in the Grand Parade got lost. Said Publicityman Casey, watching Elmer & attendants muddle down a sidestreet: "I admit it's corny, but I love it." Paid admissions (191,196) were 7,595 under the first-day Whalen total. More important to Messrs. Gibson & Casey was what their guests would have to tell millions of other U. S. Elmers about the Forty Fair: ¶ Room rates average lower than at the 1939 opening. The Fair advertised: 80,000 hotel rooms at $1.50 to $3; 170,000 between $3 and $5; 200,000 more...
...this purpose France alone has declared war on Germany 31 times in 200 years. . . . What they wanted to strike was always the German people. Their responsible men quite openly admit this to be their aim*: Germany must be dashed to pieces and reduced to small States...
...Rejected decisively a motion to admit women ministers to the annual district conferences - which would compel the Church to find churches for them. Said a spokesman: "Should a woman pastor marry, her husband would be forced to move from one place to another with his wife, possibly putting him in a humorous light." But women may be ordained...
...this generation of Dodger fans, as devoted as they are daffy, the 1940 team is second to none. Even rival clubs admit the Dodgers have a crack infield and their pitchers have made them blink. Brooklyn may not boast a DiMaggio or a Feller, but, in its first nine games, the assorted collection of castoffs and come-ups assembled by President Larry MacPhail and Manager Leo Durocher proved that they are a clicking machine...