Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of these first-person reports have been given by plain people-like the women war workers who told you about their jobs at the arsenal proving grounds in Aberdeen, Maryland-or the Englishman just back from a Commando raid who told you the epic story of the battle of St.-Nazaire-or the U.S. bombardier in London who told you how it feels to bomb Germany...
...Quixote. The dismissal is no longer possible. Even North Americans, to whom his seignorial temper may at first seem foreign, can recognize in his concept of "honor" a virtue familiar to them1 in their own great men and called by them "responsibility." (He reminds Americans, too, that while their arsenal of Democracy helped to save England, the heroic example of England saved American democracy from committing its own stupendous Munich...
...subject was OWI's proposed budget of $100,000,000 - "a tidy sum which should make us an arsenal of adjectives, producing an abundance of words and phrases for domestic consumption, with a mighty surplus for lend-lease to the Allies." What really inspired him, though, was a new opportunity to rib "Brother" Archibald MacLeish-"bereaved parent of the always late and never lamented Office of Facts and Figures...
Dave Noyes, Crimson sculler who has consistently broken the 80 minute Club record, has resumed his title with a new low time of 26:34 from Weld Boat Club to be Arsenal Street Bridge. Until Noyes downed his time, Eddie Harding had held the crown with a 27:14 time. Noyes' best previous time...
...serious trouble-machine guns firing from a four-foot turret; an arsenal of tommy guns, shotguns, rifles, side arms...