Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was VK-day along Britain's Kentish coast. The 80-foot, dragon-prowed Viking-style Hugin* was beached, and from it poured 53 warriors with knives between their teeth and spears in their hands. Several of the invaders wore horn-rimmed spectacles under their horned helmets; all had...
Then Figueres announced that he would resign from the junta. Instead of returning to the contemplative life, he announced that he would form a new political party-Compactación Nacional (National Coalition)-and fight for his ideas. He would run for Vice President in next October's elections...
Señora Rodriguez was accused of operating a brinco (literally, a jump), one of a series of fashionable private houses where, in rotation, gambling is carried on almost every night. Brincos are the most elegant manifestations of a long-standing conflict between Mexicans' desire to bet on whatever...
Retired Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, once something of a menace in Pacific waters himself, showed even less respect for his colleague, the atom bomb. "I don't think the people on the East Coast . . . quite realize what went on in the Pacific," the Bull told a reunion dinner...
Fresh from Cornell University Medical College in 1902, Dr. James Sonnett Greene received his first patient: a youth of 20 who stuttered. Between agonizing pauses and machine-gun bursts of repeated consonants, the boy asked what could be done for him. Young Dr. Greene had heard nothing about speech difficulties...