Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...during the U.S. Revolutionary War, a British soldier named Duncan McColl was sent on a mission that took him in plain view of sharpshooting Yan kees. Their musket balls shredded his clothing, tore off his cap and the heel of one shoe. At last their officer, awed by the sight, gave the order to cease firing...
Sprigle changed his name to Alois Vondich, shaved off his moustache, bought a 69? cap, and smoked stogies whenever any black marketeer was looking. He got himself an old truck, and a "partner" who knew something about meat. Within three weeks he had bought from wholesalers (at about double the ceiling prices) nearly 1,300 pounds of beef, 176 pounds of veal, 250 pounds of smoked hams and pork shoulders, 225 pounds of bacon. A ton of meat was his goal, and he made it-without ever paying a red point. To show it could be done, he also bought...
...particular, there was joy in OWMR's Advisory Board, which had wanted General Clay sacked, and in the War Production Board, whose boss, J. A. ("Cap") Krug, had been smarting under the general's stiff and stern policies...
...different notes on a low pedal he could create sympathetic vibrations in the rotunda of the Capitol. The effect was terrifying. The sound rose to an eerie roar. It rattled the windows, shook doors, threatened to bring down the 5½-ton chandelier suspended from the dome's cap.* But that was only one side of it. Even the softest of lullabies rolled clearly and without echo in the rotunda...
...courtroom's silence the prisoner clutched his gold-braided cap, turned his face toward dishonor, mumbled: "I would have preferred death...