Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of North Carolina. He once served as secretary to North Carolina Congressman Edward W. Pou, worked eight years for Tarheel Tom Morgan's Sperry Gyroscope Co. During the war, he spent his tour of duty as a Marine aviation ground officer at a North Carolina air base, Cherry Point, was back as a partner in Max Gardner's law firm and his executive assistant in the Treasury when the President beckoned...
...Pola, a former Italian naval base, about 40,000 Italians were preparing to evacuate. Houses worth $20,000 were being offered for $200 or less. Shopkeepers were trying frantically to turn their stocks into cash. The Italians had openly threatened to burn the town down before leaving, and a very worried British major representing A.M.G. predicted...
...lost control of it to the Romans some 40 years later). The Arabs would get an enclave around Jaffa; the rest of their share would be mostly hilly pastureland. The British would hold on to Jerusalem and Bethlehem, and to the barren triangle from Beersheba south to the strategic base of Aqaba...
...Leipzig, in 1932, while he was conducting a rehearsal, a railing back of him gave way and he fell over backwards, striking his head severely at the base of the skull. A brain tumor operation in 1939 left him partially paralyzed. Then in 1941 he registered at a Rye, N.Y. sanatorium for a rest. The second day he walked out, and the sanatorium director notified the police, who issued a widely publicized nine-state alarm describing Conductor Klemperer as "dangerous and insane...
...Apthrop had pasted a healthy clout into the hands of Hatch, deep in, right field; and "Armie" Essayan had punched out a sharp single to left. Harper came in and, after walking Sullivan, retired the side on weak infield bloopers. He didn't allow another man to reach first base in that game...