Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week from hat-famed Leghorn came an abrupt style switch, a harsh pull-'em-down order. Snarled Telegrafo, newspaper of Count Galeazzo Ciano, breeches-wearing husband of pants-wearing (TIME, July 14) Edda Mussolini...
...merchants liked it too: "Hell, yes. Charge the stuff to 'em. They get one of them blue government checks every two weeks. All they got to do to get it is to get in a bunch and stand around leaning on a shovel for sixty-five hours. . . . Charge it to 'em. Add about half again onto everything they...
...rescue squad sank a shaft into the mound to look for bodies. While they were working, "a smallish, quick-moving man came up and asked: 'Where's my rabbits?' He received no answer. 'Four I 'ad,' he said, 'kept 'em in the-Anderson [shelter], and this morning I saw two of 'em up the top of Beaton Street.' Ford wondered if his warden's training should have included elementary rabbit catching...
...principle of if-you-can't-lick-'em-join-'em, the Nazi Propaganda Ministry announced that V stood for Nazi victory-Viktoria-thereby impairing the purity of the German vocabulary by importing a foreign word, for the native German word for victory is Sieg. Germans were urged to use the symbol. In rendering this decision Dr. Goebbels made a mistake: since the V-sign was no longer verboten, the Germans could not suppress...
Said Talmadge to Peters: "Hit the chair and holler." Peters hit, hollered. Cried Talmadge: "Tell 'em about the niggers from Tuskegee visitin' the college [Georgia Teachers] at Statesboro." Peters related that Negroes had munched sandwiches on the campus with whites...