Word: arn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with or without the aid of a telephone) are becoming suspiciously more frequent and lengthy; but they always end in the same sad refrain, "John, bring up the box of quarters." The John referred to here is none other than that "cute boy" of the Boston night spots, John Arn...
...cutting off of food supplies had failed to shake Admiral Robert. For 35 months he had forced the U.S. to keep vigilant patrol over his domain. The 105 U.S. planes which had failed to reach France in 1940 had long since rusted into disuse; the aircraft carrier Béarn, the cruiser Emile Berlin and 140,000 tons of merchant shipping-which the United Nations could well use-rode listlessly at anchor, fouled with barnacles...
...Americans were there to get guarantees against use by the Axis of any French possessions in the Caribbean. Purpose: to lock up the French warships in the area-the aircraft carrier Béarn and the cruiser Emile Berlin at Martinique, the cruiser Jeanne D'Arc at Guadeloupe-and some 100-odd weather-damaged fighter planes...
...shore batteries to speak of, and not one airfield-so that the 100-odd dismantled U.S. planes which have sat there since the fall of France could not be used in defense. That Martinique is defended only by an old washbasin of an aircraft carrier, the Béarn, and a first-rate light cruiser, the Emile Bertin, whose crews cried when they heard that France had capitulated to the Germans and who since then have hoed beans and corn ashore and bickered angrily about Vichy's waverings. He knows that the total French defending force comprises not more...
...spokesman of the Chinese Arn ies made an unprecedented announcement to Chungking's foreign correspondents last week. Four days short of four years had gone by since the guns of the Japanese Army had blasted an end to peace in Asia. It was time for the weekly press conference. But the conference, said the spokesman, would be canceled. There was "nothing to report...