Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle let up-for British tea. One man from each battle station went to the galleys, returned with steaming pots and cups. A.P.'s Grover noted: "It is hard for Americans to understand . . . but a Briton with a spot of tea under his belt is a better fighting...
...British said they would strike again, and they did-in a small daylight raid on a truck factory at Poissy, ten miles from Paris. Plenty of other targets in the Paris factory belt waited their turn. The Farman and Salmson works had been hit-but the Citroën. Peugeot, Delahaye and Hispano-Suiza works, also humming away on war materials for Germany, had not. Near Paris, French optical firms are making tank periscopes, range finders, telescopic gun sights and other fire-control equipment for the Germans. At Levallois-Perret and La Courneuve, French armorers are making...
...anti-vice crusader attached to the Foreign Office, she told reporters in Chungking last week: "My houseboy was killed-bayoneted in the stomach. My [woman servant] was raped by three or four Japanese soldiers. . . . An Englishwoman I knew was first slashed in the face with a soldier's belt, then raped...
...even be able to stand up, much less walk around, he thought as he collapsed into an armchair. Stretching out a languid hand for a quick-energy chocolate bar, he reflected on the meagreness of the evening meal. A man needed more than that under his belt after four weary hours in Harry's Club. He'd really learned to know the place in the last two months...
...winter's land and sea disasters cast more dark shadows over the home front last week as Britons struggled gamely through their 31st month of war. In a series of belt-tightening moves...