Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, who recently (and somewhat defensively) reaffirmed his faith in the battleship (TIME, April 9), last week had some good words to say for air power: "Without our highly developed and closely integrated air arm, we would, in all probability, still be operating in Allied territory today...
Many of the other 19 displays are familiar, most of them are good. The astounding Lalage hangs by one arm right under the roof while she flapjacks herself a hundred times or more; the Wallendas dazzle on the high wire. There are clowns in all sizes and shapes, and plenty of animals. Trained seals, tooting My Country, 'Tis Of Thee, manage to be irresistibly funny. For the first time the big wild animal act displays six statuesque chorines inside the cage, one of whom wraps a leopard around her bare shoulders. And down in the basement Mr. & Mrs. Gargantua...
...Chicago's Cubs again lean heavily on the strong pitching arm of Claude Passeau and the big bat of home-run specialist Bill ("Swish") Nicholson...
Reported Missing. The Rev. William T. Cummings, 42, cool, slender Army chaplain credited with minting the phrase, "There are no atheists in foxholes," hero of a 1942 Bataan hospital bombing during which he calmed patients with prayer despite his own shrapnel-broken arm; in the sinking of a Japanese prison ship by a U.S. submarine last December...
...Fischers after the affair of the pig. "Lord & Lady of Radish Island, and two old crows." Old Anton rose from his seat in the beer garden, carefully removed the Gauleiter's spectacles, and smacked both sides of the Nazi's fat face until his old arm was tired...