Word: dudgeon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dispatch which ended Herbert Matthews' two-and-a-half-year stay in Italy was the one in which he said that "the Axis is out to defeat President Roosevelt" (see p. 25). In high dudgeon Benito Mussolini's Government declared that "the dispatch tended to disturb relations between the two countries...
...Lightship, which had fancy premieres simultaneously in three large London theatres, they extol British courage in a salty, moving account of the bombing of the East Dudgeon lightship in the North Sea. This one also shows what Blitzkrieg has done to British film censorship. During the attack on the lightship a gnarled seaman crouching on the open deck looks up at a Heinkel raking the ship with machine-gun fire, spits out: "The dirty bastards...