Word: aren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonel laid down the telephone and chewed on his pipe. Lieut. Colonel Roy Moore was working another telephone. "Why aren't you firing your artillery?" he snapped. He was told that the forward observer had not been heard from; the unit had lost its own artillery eyes...
...willing to risk their modest captal on the artistic investment. Many folks around town have volunteered their services in putting the band across--John Bergen, Cambridge artist, has begun a series of cards to be placed at the tables as part of a promotional scheme aimed at people who aren't quite sure of what dixieland jazz is all about...
...know that they are contributing to a much greater show. Every ship sunk and every plane shot down by Chennault's men lessens the Jap potential in more active theaters of war. A young colonel of the Fourteenth commented: "We're a thorn in their side. We aren't serious but we hurt. The Japs are like boxers: if they take off their gloves to dig out the thorn, somebody is going to bop them right smack in the face." Supply problems alone will hold down the Fourteenth for bitter months to come...
...hell you aren't. You're there now." From then on, the company did not expand. It exploded...
...trainmen had held out against calling the vote. As one member put it at the Chicago meeting: "If we strike, we aren't striking against the carriers, we are striking against the Government...