Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Croonersinatra but rather the marine sergeant who was letting the dishes rot, the barracks fester, and the girls alone in anticipation of the arrival of the romantic singer. Happiest were the microphones in the R.K.O. theatres which will now be clung to and loved for as long as the chain pays possibly into the five figures for the vaunted services of the caveman...
...about 5,000 North-country fishermen and wholesale-house workers (who process, ice and ship fish) that is important money. To a protein-hungry America, the catch is an important dietary item. Two million pounds will go to the Army; chain food stores will get millions more. What is left will be frozen, salted or smoked...
...Acquired a wardrobe of 40 suits, 20 shirts, 25 ties, half a dozen pairs of shoes, two mink-lined topcoats, three gold cigaret cases valued at $700 apiece, a star sapphire ring ($1,200), high yellow button shoes for race meetings, an 18-carat, 110-penny-weight watch chain 17 inches long; and from his writings, endorsements...
Trouble loomed from the outset. Soon after Italy capitulated, a handful of British airborne troops took a handful of Dodecanese and Aegean islands off Turkey's west coast. Their aim: air bases, harbors from which to harass from the rear the Nazis' outer chain of Balkan defenses-the islands of Rhodes, Scarpanto and Crete...
...wildly alarmed chain of neighborhood weeklies declared that Communists were trying to seize Detroit's soot-blackened city hall, shrilled: "If the true picture could be told, patriots would not sleep nights." Handfuls of small cards fluttered one day into downtown streets. Sample: "FitzGerald Says the Negroes Need Protection! Protection Against Whom? What do YOU Think...