Word: cart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tunnels themselves are fairly high and well lighted, and even the most staid observer would be forgiven a pardonable desire to be turned loose here underground with a Jeep. Only the passage of a occasional food cart breaks the cool silence of the tunnels, although several hundred unwitting students may be tramping overhead...
...Paris, Dali found the sight of "a legless blind man sitting in his little cart," tapping the sidewalk "with a boundless self-assurance," so repugnant that he "went up to the blind man and . . . gave him a kick that sent him scooting all the way across the Boulevard Edgar-Quinet...
...jets de Guerre. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art opened a "Useful Objects in Wartime" exhibit. Featured: baking pans made of paper, a cornhusk doormat, an open-top hamper-cart for the free wheeling of groceries, a plastic sink stopper, a felt eyeglass case...
...broadcast the announcement that French West Africa and Dakar had come "freely under my orders." Dakar had been won at last and after a bloodless battle. Despite official fears that press comments less brutal than President Roosevelt's forthright reference to the renegade admiral might upset the apple cart, Darlan apparently was still acting in accord with General Eisenhower's plans...
...cart was heavy with flour sacks. A Red Cross man helped to unload the food, began the distribution at once. By late afternoon all had received a portion of flour. The bake ovens were fired and bread was soon piled on the kitchen tables. For a few days the children of Issari could see the loaves with their own eyes...