Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long inland arm of San Francisco Bay the ships came to the naval magazine at Port Chicago, a cheerless town sprawling under dusty trees. The 1,500 citizens watched them come & go incuriously; after the novelty wore off, the ships might have been loading wheat, for all the thrill there was in it. Few even knew the names of the two ships which lay at the low, wooden naval wharf one night last week with slingloads of heavy ammunition swaying aboard in the glare of masthead lights...
...Tokyo added one more to the list. Vice Admiral Hiichi Hasegawa of the fleet air arm staff had died "in action," possibly in the Battle of the Philippine...
...West and get credit among a fairly large number of 'sensible people' in Britain and the U.S. for keeping the Russians out of Central Europe. Determination would pull Germany through as the dominant power in Central Europe, which the English-speaking Allies would have to support and arm against might of Russia...
...first, a few young civilians suddenly sprang up, flaunted arm bands and weapons, and called themselves resistance chiefs. The French police soon suppressed them with the aid. of legitimate resistance-chiefs. Leaders and members of the real underground were completely orderly, completely cooperative. Normandy has had no purges, no killing of Frenchmen by Frenchmen...
...Vibration from a rivet gun does nothing to the muscles and nerves of a woman's hand. The vibration is imperceptible. "Rivet arm is due simply to prolonged use of the same group of muscles in a tense position...