Word: canings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Antony, where a squad of Spanish Republicans, now of the French 2nd Armored Division, stopped us. There was still enemy resistance ahead. Presently the tanks cleaned it up, and General Leclerc, who" stood in the road with one hand in his pocket and the other gripping a cane, decided to go into Paris. It was 9 o'clock...
...Paris proper and, if such a thing were possible, the crowd grew thicker in the street. When the General's car stopped, they climbed up on it with their flowers and flags-Tricolors, Stars & Stripes, Union Jacks, Red flags with the hammer & sickle. Leclerc stood stiffly clutching his cane, never smiling, while the men in the armored car and in the jeeps behind took the crowd's embraces. Women held their children up to be kissed by the liberators, saying: "Merci, merci...
...statue of the Trojan on the University of Southern California campus a group of male students meets almost every day. One of them occasionally taps the toe of his artificial leg with his cane...
...subcommittee said the industry had done this by putting new, inferior whiskey in blends on the market. For these whiskeys (aged whiskey blended with a high degree of cane, grain or fruit spirits) the industry got high prices because there was no "preexisting date" on which OPA could set a ceiling. And it allowed distillers to keep a "greater amount of aged whiskeys which apparently they hope to . . . market after the war at higher prices...
Three of our companies closed in, firing into the holes and ditches as they walked through the cane fields and woods. "All the fight's gone out of them," said Captain Thomas Wheeler of Kansas City as we walked behind his tanks. "Now it's just like killing rats...