Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Calmly the British waited until the Germans had announced the sinking before telling that the Arandora Star was a prison ship-thereby preventing Nazi propagandists from claiming that the British had scuttled her deliberately. Afterwards the Germans, who ruthlessly attacked hospital ships at Dunkirk, had to content them selves with grumbling that the British should have marked the ship so that it would not be attacked. The British announced that the U-boat commander who struck the blow was Germany's Scapa Flow hero, Lieut. Captain Günther Prien...
...friend Hans Zinsser (Rats, Lice and History-TIME, Feb. 11, 1935) are one and the same man. Thanks to this adroit device, Dr. Zinsser eats, has and hands out whatever cake he pleases. As R. S. he shoots off his mouth to his heart's content...
American Export Lines, whose development of the Mediterranean and Black Sea trade was the most profitable post-war achievement of the U. S. merchant marine, must now content itself with calls at Lisbon. But no strategic material from the Mediterranean (except perhaps mercury) is irreplaceable. And U. S. processors of cottonseed oils knew what to do about an olive-oil shortage; U. S. rayon and silk men shed no tears at the blockade of Italy; California growers saw a widening market for domestic wine. One product would be partly missed: cork, of which Mediterranean countries (plus Portugal) produce...
...them have since been returned. The whole question of defense against invasion is powerfully affected by the fact that we have for the time being in this island incomparably more military forces than we had in the last war. But this will not continue. We shall not be content with a defensive war. We have our duty to our Allies...
...caused by the fact that instructors, like students, are busy around exam time, is obviously of no avail. What the students want is a comprehensive review, indicating the important trends in a course, and relating them to the course as a whole. But often the section man, knowing the content of his coming exam, feels that he must bend over backwards to avoid stressing the topics which will be brought...