Word: boredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...registered air-mail letter bore the summons to the Presidential mansion with the notation "return receipt requested," but no answer was forthcoming from the White House, and James is on trial today without the support of the men he is charged with having libelled...
There were other events, however, that bore out his prophecy. Tom Holyoke came through in great shape, with Mike Ford, to snatch five unlooked for, but opportune points. Fred Phinney, still in the process of recovering from an injury suffered during the cross-country season, and Bob Kent, who took places in the two-mile were all important in the victory, while Bill Palson's return to his old form when he came within an inch of taking third in the mile, was another outstanding example of the truth in Jaakko's words...
...Result: because he knew German, young Corre was sent to the Maginot Line, killed. ^ Odette kept the butter & eggs store and wore green-black clothes and looked pious and demure. "Actually she was an infidel and a Socialist." The milk she sold was bluish and watery; her eggs "bore unmistakable evidence of having been near hens...
This indication bore out one of the most significant trends of the Pacific war. Japan seems to be running out of her best fighters, the Navy "Zeros," which must be the spearheads of her defense against air attack. Last week the A.V.G.'s Brigadier General Claire Chennault reported from Burma that his U.S. fighter-pilots had destroyed more than 200 Jap pursuits. The Zeros are fast-climbing, highly maneuverable, highly powered (1,675-h.p.) single-seaters. And even the Zeros, despite their superior maneuverability, have been no match for the faster, Allison-engined P-40s and their superior...
...that 1,500,000 Germans were being kept in the west by the offensive. The London Times claimed: "In addition, half of the entire fighter strength of the Luftwaffe is kept away from the Russian front to meet the R.A.F.'s attacks." Neither the figure nor the claim bore examination. The Air Ministry, in fact, listed only 20,000 combatants in a breakdown of its 1,500,000 total. The Times claim did not fit very neatly with the R.A.F. announcement that on the day 400 planes went over France, only five German planes were shot down...