Word: ah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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East & West, oilmen racked their brains for ah answer to the transport problem. Commissioner Sadler proposed that pipelines within Texas be ripped up, relaid cross country to Eastern refineries (thus saving the steel which the Government refused to allocate for such a line last fall). Rail tank cars ran day & night, in the week ending Feb. 21 carried a record 326,636 barrels; but their best was about 20% of Eastern demand. Moreover, around 3,000 cars had to be kept on the Pacific Coast, where tanker-dependent Oregon and Washington also face a shortage...
France was an old man remembering a mistress with whom he had been unwise but gay as spring-France and Democracy. Ah, the whole world had envied them. How pleasant had been their dream of Liberte, egalite, fraternite. And how agreeable to lie late abed in the mornings...
...first suspicions of sabotage, Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, commandant of the Third Naval District, made blunt reply. Said he: "The fire started . . . when a civilian worker . . . was using ah acetylene torch to remove an ornamental lamp from the salon wall. A spark from his torch apparently leaped into a pile of life preservers...
...earth of more than 2,000 graves they piled asters, poinsettias, hibiscus flowers, and over the dead, Marines standing honor guard fired three farewell volleys. Their elegy was pronounced by Captain William A. Maguire, Chaplain of the Fleet. Said he: "Ah ... if every American had seen how quietly, yes quietly, men suffered, how gallantly they died, how courageously they thought about the next man, they would glory...
...always satisfied his superiors, often was the butt of his contemporaries. They used to goad him at mess by suggesting that an enemy bullet was not something to be grateful for. This would enrage Bock and he would make his usual harangue, until his fellows all said together: "Ah, the holy fire of Küstrin...