Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month after the Allied landings, the Italians had quit fighting in Sicily, the Germans faced another Cap Bon, though with some hope of evacuating a remnant. In Sicily, the Axis had lost 125,000 men captured, uncounted thousands dead and wounded, uncounted hundreds of planes, tanks, trucks and guns. They had won a month's time to bolster Festung Europa; but they had surely hoped for more. The Allies had practiced amphibious invasion on a grand scale, had sealed their control of the Mediterranean. Now they stood a step from the European main...
...Seniors and more appropriately for the Quickies the time has come. On your cap device there are two hands on the torch the sea Hous are bowed, and the dolphin has finished his dive. Neptunus Rex will soon become a reality...
Dodd's hardest job used to be getting directors to take his advice. Once a director wanted the wedding guests to cap the ceremony by singing I Ain't Gonna Sin No More. Dodd had to threaten to walk off the lot if the director persisted. But those were the early days. Now directors more readily bow to Dodd...
Next day, Colonel McCormick, wearing hunting boots, an old cap and a rumpled brown suit which he said he had not changed in ten days, flew into Manhattan from a Canadian inspection trip. To newsmen at LaGuardia Airport, he snorted: "Willkie? I don't believe that foreigner can carry Illinois.... Why, they think he's nuts out there. ... He just coupled his name with mine to get it in the papers...
Hesser received his three stripes and the "scrambled eggs" for his cap visor while he was in Washington. As one of the Junior Officers he has been the Executive of the Navy Supply Corps School across the river...