Word: armored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arms, No Armor. In Southampton, England, Army officials required U.S.-bound war brides to swear that they had no guns or ammunition...
...Armor & Pink Tights. Reviewer Shaw has nothing to say about the other five; to him Actress Ellen Terry is Topic A. The great Playwright conducted a long and passionate correspondence with the great Actress, but rarely met her-by a well understood agreement to keep everything platonic. Now, 17 years after Ellen's death, Shaw takes care to get it on record that there was nothing much between Watts and Ellen. Writes...
Ellen was only 16, and Watts 47, when they were married. He admired her youth and spirit, dressed her in armor to pose for The Watchman. The armor was heavy, and as he was putting the finishing touches on the picture, she crashed to the floor in a faint. Watts' middle-aged lady friends, who treated him as a tame prophet and his studio as a shrine, looked askance at bouncy Ellen, and when Watts' child-wife danced in on a dinner party dressed in pink tights, it was decided that she must go. Her later fame came...
Although Nimitz drew no attention to this fact, it was no coincidence that the heavy-armor men had gone over the side. As one of the young Turks put it: "They couldn't kick 'em too hard as they let 'em drop. That hurts enough...
...year-old tank destroyer corporal was afraid of cars and girls. But he recognized his defects, read popular articles about psychoneurotics and was determined not to be one. Faith in his church, cheery letters from his sisters, and a firm belief in the strength of his armor plate kept him going until headaches and nervousness got him down. ¶ A sergeant had nightmares; he also had near-hysteria at the sight of blood. He had known about his condition since youth, and took regular slugs of brandy to quiet his nerves. In a cheerful, half-drunk state, he commanded...