Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slow Decay. In the U.S. armed forces, only the Navy and its Marine Corps are anywhere near fighting trim. The Navy has fleets in both oceans, each built around a striking arm of six big carriers. Within 90 days it could bring the first of the zipper fleet out of its cocoons, within a year complete the job. The Marines have their 2nd Division and a reorganized 3rd Brigade; the 1st Division is on its way home from China. Between them, the Navy and Marines have 6,000 aircraft, almost all designed only for the support of the fleets...
...through Havelock's clothes, helping himself to a size eight pair of brown shoes after ascertaining their size. Some minutes later after Havelock's alarm, John Fitzgerald of the University police saw a man fleeing up Plympton Street with what appeared to be a pair of shoes under one arm...
Farley and Mead took their seats in silence. But Herbert Lehman, when he heard that he was down with the precinct captains, hustled over to Democratic State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick and informed him curtly that he considered himself affronted. Then, with Mrs. Lehman on his arm, he swept out. Chortled the Daily News next day: "Is it possible that the Democratic Party is split by even more dissensions, feuds, and hatreds than appear on the surface...
...fading Russian street signs are not being repainted. Relations with the Russians have changed. Vienna boasts that it has civilized the Russians, has made them wash and pull up their pants, has taught them how to walk like Europeans (some Russians from the steppes had a curious gait, left arm and left foot swinging forward at the same time). Now, whenever shots are heard from Russian barracks, Viennese whisper: "Aha, a Russian who likes the West too much is being liquidated...
...grandsons of the people who first worked for our family there" receive pieces of land to cultivate, along with some pay, in return for factory labor. On ceremonial occasions, the workers, who must go to Mass and Communion regularly, kiss Jijén's hand and even his arm up to the shoulder...