Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...R.C.A. plant. A beauty operator before the war, she now took a $20-a-week job in Paul's Beauty Shop on East Michigan Street. Said Juanita: "I just figured I wanted to have something solid to stand on after the war, something that won't blow up overnight...
Shortage of Time. Washington itself was divided. Many in the Administration wanted to begin an orderly reconversion to peace now, as against the Somervell school, who think that any talk of reconversion now is next door to treason. To the Reconversionists, General Somervell's blast seemed like a blow below the belt...
What would be the next stop on the road to Tokyo? Planning in Pearl Harbor, Admiral Chester Nimitz had a score of possibilities. Planning in Tokyo, Admiral Shigetaro Shimada had no possibilities at all. He had to wait for the blow, counter it if he could. Up to now his countering average was zero. His only asset was the fanatical willingness of garrison troops to die; their numbers and resources would increase as U.S. forces drove closer to his homeland. Saipan was but a sample of the Japs' determination to carry with them to death as many Americans...
...German newspapers published two photographs. One showed a buxom Parisienne spitting in a British prisoner's face. Said the caption: "This Parisian lady could not be prevented from showing her disgust by spitting in the Englishman's face." The other picture showed a G.I. ducking a blow at his face delivered by a bespectacled bystander. Said the caption: "The population was so aroused against criminal terrorists that German soldiers were not always able to hold back the irate crowd...
Paul Whiteman signed up the cherubic, long-lashed song-plugger when he was 18 ("I looked like an unfrocked altar boy"). In between his songs with the band, Downey sat with the brass section and pretended to blow a horn, although he could not play a note. His salary boiled up to $350 a week...