Word: duds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that torpedo had not turned out to be a dud, Leigh Hoadley would not today be a professor of Biology, expert in the development of frog, fish and chicken eggs, and Master of Leverett House...
...Three dud shells lie in what must have been a garden. A dud bomb is buried in the roadside mud. The front half of an armored car is parked in the shadow of what was once a house. A bent, bullet-riddled fragment of what had been a tank lies near a dirt-caked helmet. The helmet looks like a tortoise's back: it smells sour...
...aluminumware industry has laid off 3,413 of its 16,000 employes. An 0PM-industry conference over this was a complete dud. It would take unavailable new equipment, the industry decided, even to switch over to manufacture stainless steelware, let alone to get into defense production...
...grenade was a dud. Edison's reply: the leadership was not in the gift of Hague, but lay with the people, from whom he was willing to receive...
...Defense workers: Every dud which leaves a munitions factory is a shot against Hitler. Do your best to see that there are among you many manufacturers of duds...