Word: choicest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airfields. Mitscher's boys call this treatment the "Mitscher shampoo." Next day, they were at it again, but there were fewer parked aircraft, and many loosed their bombs and bullets at inviting fixed targets: an aircraft factory and three engine plants. Along the waterfront were floating targets, choicest of all in Navy flyers' estimation: they sank a destroyer, two destroyer escorts, a freighter and many coastal craft; an escort carrier was fired and overturned...
...that he has one of the nation's choicest football parks, Topping plans to take his time about whether to switch his National Football League franchise to New York or join one of the three proposed new pro leagues...
Moscow's Pravda, over whose editorial attitude Joseph Stalin reputedly has considerable control, responded to Mr. Willkie's homily with the choicest selection from a Bolshevik's polemical dictionary. "Willkie Is Stirring the Waters" was the title of Pravda's prominently displayed blast. It accused "Mr. Willkie, as an obedient speaking-trumpet," of "reproducing the suspicious cries of the reactionary groups [in the U.S.] which are afraid of a victorious movement forward of the Red Army and the Allied Armies." In Willkie's brief for wholehearted cooperation with Russia, based on "simple American common sense...
Franklin Roosevelt, who dearly loves a baseball metaphor, came up with one of his choicest. In Martinique, pro-Vichy Admiral Georges Robert had given way to anti-Vichy Henri-Etienne Hoppenot. Said the President: We waited it out and we got a base on balls...
...three acts" was the entertainment prepaid for the Ashlers, the Ambroses, and other guests at Briggs Hall on Monday evening. Instructors who wonder why we can't remember how to balance the daily records of the Ship's Store and the Navy Mail Clerk were amazed to find their choicest classroom asides so accurately quoted. We hope they weren't surprised to see the ghosts of the celebrated first class of WAVES at the NSCS take on corporeal form. When they sang to the haunting strains of "Chloe," "All our marks will taunt you," and "through your classes here...