Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Richardson Jr., Army commander in the Pacific Ocean Areas. On the third day Franklin Roosevelt called in reporters for his only press conference of the trip, seating the newsmen on the lawn of the Holmes estate, under the palms, from which all coconuts had been thoughtfully sheared lest they drop on unprotected heads. The only noteworthy point: U.S. fighting forces will go back to the Philippines, he said, and General MacArthur will go with them...
Allied officials were in a quandary when Polish air crews and airborne troops in Britain volunteered to go to the aid of the Warsaw patriots. How could they be sent with hope of success across the whole of Germany? How could they even effectively drop supplies and ammunition from the air when, in fluctuating street-to-street fighting, the material was more likely than not to fall into German hands? Probing the Bag. A Red Army spokesman said that Warsaw was one of those places "which have to be captured from all sides." Last week Marshal Rokossovsky's army...
...contact the writer for further information. For those of you who are blessed with powerful radios. Eddie Condon's Carnegie Hall sessions are aired over the Providence station Saturday afternoons at three o'clock. WHDH used to carry this program locally, but absence of appreciative mail caused them to drop...
Speaking of mail, the money conscience executives of radio's front offices pull programs off the air if the public falls to evince enough interest as judged by volume of correspondence. So if you wish jazz over the radio to continue, take out your pen and paper and drop a line to the programs mentioned above and listen to them regularly...
First crack in the crew's silence is opened by congenial Lieut. Williams. Pleased that a German officer recognizes his Boston accent, he chattily lets drop the fact that wounded Sergeant Cole is from Atlanta. A pretty little German nurse promptly knocks Cole's guard down by confiding that she has just finished Gone With the Wind. Enamored, he never suspects a thing when she produces a fake Red Cross form and gets him to fill in his unit's number and its base (Naples...