Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortune. In Pretoria, South Africa, a fortuneteller promised that "tomorrow" would be a G.I.'s lucky day. Next day the lucky soldier: missed connections back to camp, trudged eight miles, scalded his foot, dislocated an arm, cut his leg. But he got a promotion, received a gift of 500 cigarets, won $40 in a lottery...
...most battered officer in the Navy-he had long ago busted his left ankle and split his kneecap playing football, and he had a sort of double elbow on his left arm from an old injury (a fellow pilot dove a seaplane at him and hit the arm with a wingtip float). On the Ti they used to say of Dixie: "He's got so much metal in him the ship's compass follows him when he walks across the deck...
...General Lucius D. Clay and Britain's Lieut. General Sir Ronald M. Weeks. An official statement said "useful decisions [were] reached in an atmosphere of complete and mutual understanding." Correspondents passed the word along that Marshal Zhukov, hitherto inhibited by the presence of the Kremlin's strong-arm troubleshooter, Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs Andrei Vishinsky, had received more discretionary authority and was using it to speed up cooperation. Soon it was announced that...
...Allied planes fly from Natal to Dakar. With four U.S. Navy technicians aboard, some of the Brazilian sailors were celebrating Independence Day. A stunning explosion rocked the Baía. Subsequent blasts literally blew her apart. Blue-bloused sailors were tossed into the waves. Commander Davila Garcia Albuquerque, his arm shattered by the explosion, shouted to his crew, "Save yourselves; I'm finished." But few of them were able to. Three minutes after the first explosion the Baía sank...
...Grebe suggests that a large house may have several units (guests might want to do their own laundry or pick up a snack in privacy). At the base of the U is a Swedish-type stove, burning smokeless coal, which supplies heat and power for the unit. Along one arm of the U is ranged a food-freezing compartment, a refrigerator, an ironing machine, warming ovens, a cooking range (using pressure cooking)-all topped by a long work counter. Along the other arm: a dishwasher, automatic clothes washer and drier, lavatory, bath, toilet. A door and big windows...