Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Convert. Various tatters in the blanket of secrecy reveal Josip Broz as an Austro-Hungarian Army private during World War I. Destiny, in the anonymous guise of a War Office bureaucrat, sent him to the eastern front. There, he was captured by (or deserted to) the Russians, was packed off to Siberia. In 1917, Tito entered the Red Army, fought in the Russian civil war, was chosen for special training as a Communist foreign agent, became indelibly indoctrinated with the century's great new faith. During his novitiate, he found time to marry a Russian girl who bore...
...same elsewhere in Nurnberg. Said a British secretary quartered at the U.S. "Girls' Town" (quarters for clerks and stenographers et al.): "When I get up I usually find two American lieutenants shaving in the girls' bathroom." With warmer weather, blanket outings have become more frequent. Only officers can take jeeps from the motor pools after hours, and they drive off with their Fraulein to secluded spots...
...Along. In San Diego, a discouraged broncobuster advertised for sale a "Western saddle, bridle, blanket and halter; rope, block and tackle, wheel chair...
...used car lots the over-ceiling premium bought a jack, an extra battery, a blanket-at $100 and up. In Oklahoma City, a dealer had a tired hunting hound which he habitually sold-along with a car. The hound dog always shuffled back...
With an average of 33 percent favoring blanket adoption of the proposals, the House votes ran parallel to each other, while a 50 percent all-yes in the Union, where one glass of milk is the regular portion, emphasized student concern with that item elsewhere...