Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grasp butt lightly but firmly between thumb and third finger, stand back, aim, and let fire. The demonstration brought excellent results: two ladder cars, three engines, one rescue truck, twenty Cambridge firemen, and 300 feet of good Cambridge hose...
...Funny. In the U.S., they have been the butt of easy jokes - but the British, still full of memories of the days when the Home Guard was the backbone of home defense, are not so ready to laugh. The Volksstürmer have done an immense amount of work on Germany's border fortifications. The East Prussian Gauleiter boasted that in 100 days they had dug enough antitank ditches to reach from Königsberg to Lisbon. By taking over garrison duties in the rear, the Volkssturm releases better soldiers for the front lines. Whether fighting or digging, they...
Last week Americans in Paris were imitating frugal Frenchmen who roll their own, getting the makings from old butts. Three butts make a full-sized smoke. A man with only two butts has to adopt another makeshift. He borrows a third from a friend, rolls his cigaret, smokes it, gives the butt back for further...
...plans and suggestions from the underground. His guide was worried, gloomy, reluctant. They slogged through the mud for three days. Karski could not go on, though the border of Hungary was only 15 miles away. They spent the night in a village. Karski was awakened by a gun butt mashed against his skull. He dropped his undeveloped microfilm into a barrel of water...
...duty by Teresa Wright in a lying-in hospital. As it turns out, he had married Miss Wright a proper interval ago, been confronted with a socialite father-in-law and his star-gazing wife (Patricia Collinge), who disapproved of smoking. With the help of a concealed cigaret-butt and some very funny writing by Nunnally Johnson, he had contrived to burn their house down and, not hearing from his estranged bride, a minor, had concluded that the marriage was annulled...