Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scheduled rest, he spent most of his time telephoning or greeting callers who came in unannounced. At 4, he was at the Los Angeles Athletic Club amidst a milling crowd of some 200 in the low-ceilinged assembly room. They were leaders in local affairs from such poles apart as reactionary old ex-Governor Merriam and liberal New Dealing John Anson Ford of the County Board of Supervisors. (One well-meaning lawyer whispered to Willkie not to shake hands with Ford: "He's a radical." Willkie and Ford shook nevertheless...
...fighter bomber has to go in at a shallower angle, thus must allow for a looping trajectory in the fall of the bomb. The pilot must also drop his bomb and pull out at higher altitudes to keep from hitting the ground, or water, or risk pulling his plane apart in a violent recovery. The next twelve months should show which service is right...
...Fannin County, the Rayburns are known as "black-dirt folk," the flattering description of the more opulent farmers and cattlemen who own the county's best rich, deep black soil. They stand apart from the folk on the "grey-dirt" farms, where only a thin layer of slate-covered loam hides the limestone...
...water was tedious and some of us fell asleep. When we woke the yellow moon was turning orange and growing dimmer, the sky to our left was lit by flashes of gunfire where the British were supposed to be attacking Salerno, and now & then a huge glare ripped apart the darkness, as if a ship were exploding out to sea. But before us all was quiet and dark. We broke our circle and headed in a column toward a shore, which we could not see but which still looked safe...
...right onto our beach. Trees, brush and all obstacles were cut down so as to obtain a clear field of fire. Nothing was left to chance. Machine guns fired only in certain zones; the zones interlocked. Almost on the water's edge, in some cases only 50 yd. apart, machine guns were set up facing the sea. Fifty yards from the beach four-barreled machine guns threatened death to anyone coming out of the boats. Behind these were mortars. Only 200 yd. from the beach 88s were employed...