Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quayside where the soldiers were unloading ships, a striking foreman saw a cargo net threatening a young guardsman, cried out: "Mind there, son." He turned to a friend, said: "I wish those boys wouldn't take chances. They treat it like a big game...
...lieutenants,' I got more than the army." He was allowed to have changes of clothes and tasty meals (sent in from restaurants), but the police would not admit Igea, who wanted to bring him some "little cakes." She complained bitterly: "I'm lonely in this big apartment. Charley was always so gentle and kind. Why, oh, why don't they stop this persecution...
...apparently driving for the Nationalist strongpoint at Changsha. Four of Lin's divisions captured the Yangtze port of Ichang, 200 miles north of Changsha. In Shensi province, the Nationalist defenders abandoned Paochi, the western terminus of the Lunghai railroad, but counterattacked east and west of the town. Another big battle was shaping up in western Kiangsi province, directly above Canton...
Army Chief of Staff General Omar N. Bradley, attending top-level military conferences in White Sulphur Springs, took time out for golf with two other big guns: Under Secretary of Defense Stephen T. Early and Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg...
...Blue Ridge and Great Smoky mountaineers call the parlor the big house and a bull a stock...