Word: cartful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frenchmen grieved and worried. A Parisian flower-vendor propped a black headline, Roosevelt est mort, against his cart of bouquets - "for the death of a savior," he said. A bank clerk cried: "La voix de l'Amérique est diminuée de moitié - America's voice is reduced by half!" Hundreds signed the Embassy register. Hundreds sent cards of regret to Americans whom they had never known. Frenchmen came up to Americans in the streets, shook hands, and said: "We have lost our best friend. . . . What will happen...
Because both trusted her, she got along with both ELAS and the British. She was promised food and 14 trucks. The trucks promptly took off to cart goods for the black market at 26 times the official rate. Somehow she found mules to take their place, persuaded the Greeks to clean the hospitals, moved the sick to the hospitals from their miserable dwellings (sometimes holes in the ground, covered with twigs...
...here is where you folks listening come in on the gag," he confided. "Every one of you listening also mail a book to Mr. Wickel. . . . When all the books have arrived, Army trucks will cart them away to the Victory Book Campaign headquarters. . . . Mr. Wickel will be searching for Page 13s until the cows come home. ... I can just see his face...
Said one Salvadoran : "What this country needs is to cart every last bit of armament to Acajutla and dump it into...
...again to the nature of the Partisan warfare, the wounded soldier can seldom be transported from the battlefield to the hospital quickly enough. On a truck, a cart, horseback, stretcher or on foot, it takes him anywhere between one week and six weeks to reach his medical destination. He may die or become an invalid for life on the way. It is for this reason that less than 70% of the Partisan wounded ever get fit for the front again...