Word: cart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home. They tend gardens, sunbathe, play football, grow fat on abundant rations. Miserably paid in their own army, they now receive British Army pay (small compared with U.S. pay). General Annibale ("Electric Whiskers") Bergonzoli, pleasantly housed with several other generals, has been seen lolling along in a native tonga (cart) toward a nearby village, where the captured officers are popular because they have so much money to squander. This situation is altogether proper and legal: Britain is merely observing the Geneva Convention, which 29 nations adopted in 1935 to govern the treatment of prisoners...
Last week the Spaniard was bidding for the year's prize white elephant, William Randolph Hearst's $500,000 dismantled Spanish monastery. Marked down to a mere $19,000, it involved an important joker: the buyer must cart it away. Even to a nearby site, the freight would run into big money...
...publicize its own rubber drive, Philadelphia's KYW put a bouncing blonde cutie in a rubber bathing suit, sent her touring the town in a horse-drawn cart, made as if to salvage her suit. Result: 19,173 Ib. of rubber in twelve hours, and the war's most nonsensical publicity photograph...
...army out of the scrap materials collected in a nation-wide salvage drive. The organization has already been officially recognized by Roosevelt's Committee on War Relief Agencies, and plans to start collecting on July 17. You don't have to send your old records anywhere, or even cart them to Briggs and Briggs, for the American Legion is going to run a door-to-door campaign. Here is a good way to clean off that closet shelf and do your conscience a good turn at the same time...
...practically all river transport around Shwebo had been sunk under orders, and as the railway was hopelessly jammed with refugees and later with some wounded and stranded, we formed a motor column composed of 14 jeeps, four sedans and about ten trucks, planning to go along by cart tracks as far as possible, then to walk. There was no other...