Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bigger Guns? The need for more heavy artillery - main U.S. reliance in Italy has been on the 105-mm. howitzer (standard field gun of World War II) and on 155s for heavier work - is illustrated by the comment of one veteran battalion commander on the Cassino front : "The effectiveness of artillery on the offense in this country has been negligible since the Germans are so obviously well...
...Vittorio Orlando had not died under Gestapo guns, as British newsmen in Switzerland reported. From the Rome radio last week came a denial of the story. From Italy's aged (84), retired World War I premier came an alleged comment: "If I was shot, it must have been done with the greatest delicacy, for I assure you I really was not aware...
Coach Floyd Stahl declined to comment on the pitching prospects. He based his decision upon the fact that as yet the moundsmen have not pitched to batters and it is impossible to judge their wares until used against a few heavy hitters...
...Colonel know that Makin's young women bathed, naked, in a certain lake? Yes, said the Colonel, he knew. Did the Colonel know that U.S. soldiers gathered around the lake and embarrassed the girls by comment and laughter? The Colonel pondered, then proposed: "I know what is in the King's mind. I shall have a high fence built around the lake and covered with salvaged tentirg so that the young ladies' privacy may be preserved...
...Biting Comment. In Indianapolis, Ho tel Clerk Dewey F. Campbell filed a suit for $50,000 against Roger Ferguson and the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., charged that Ferguson, an agent of the oil com pany, on being informed that there were no rooms available, had bitten the end of Dewey Campbell's nose...