Word: deliverance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mistaken for the highest code in the U.S. Intelligence files, CINCRTO dispatched a plane post haste to deliver the vital missive in a hollow bomb. Fortunately, it arrived in time for a wardroom celebration on the last two inches of scotch in the medical officer's stores.
Saise asserted that the Post Office had recently cease to deliver or pick up mail at that address as a result of the inactivity there. Nothing but "funny-men" have been seen about in recent months, he added.
Now what had come over Prentice, Doc wondered? On the street, last week, people kept telling him, "Please don't have any babies on Thursday." On Wednesday his wife insisted that he get his calls all cleaned up. The next morning (after getting up at 5 to deliver baby...
Catholics, the article contends, rarely take note of Protestant doings. But among Protestant sects, "there is seldom a convention or a conference held . . . when they do not pass resolutions and, Moscow-like, deliver a blast at [Catholics]." The Catholic Church, through the centuries, has become accustomed to "misrepresentation and slander...
"Of course," de Seversky admitted, "we cannot judge what the future will bring. There may come a time when we can deliver atomic bombs without the use of planes. But under the present set-up we must have control of the air."