Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill was absent when King George VI opened a new session of Parliament last week. When the King read his seventh opening address from the throne, he wore a naval uniform, sported a visored admiral's cap where his glittering crown should have been. The normal pageantry, usually a richly costumed charade suggesting Britain's history of kings and the common man's long fight for democratic self-government, was stripped to three essentials. The indispensables were: 1) the symbol of democracy; 2) the symbol of wealth; 3) the symbol of the King's safety...
Just then I happened to run into Mary near by and casually informed her what had happened. Her reaction was decisive. She banged her cap on her head, her blue eyes blazed, and she strode towards the milling mob to set upon the British sailors singlehanded. But unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) the sailors had disappeared. And a highly frustrated Mary seethed all over the place...
...doing this, finally worked out a crude welding gun to make the job easier. But when he got "no thanks nor extra dough" he quit, and set to work perfecting his gun in a shop behind his home at Vallejo. His simple solution: encase the flux in a small cap and fasten it to the end of the stud. When the stud was loaded into his 7-lb. gun and the trigger pulled, a spring snapped the stud against the steel plate, electrically welding it in a trice...
...hour after the questions began, the General donned his red-ribboned service cap, offered a final comment: the first problem was to take Rome-"He who holds Rome holds the hearts of the Italian people...
...emerged from his room after dinner, wearing a hunting cap and carrying the shotgun, which was slung casually under one arm, as if he were going after deer...