Word: erect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hold On." Eight hours after the landing, MacArthur himself went ashore from a destroyer. He stood erect in a Higgins boat, wearing a trench coat and his gold-braided cap. Disdaining snipers, he traversed the beach, congratulating his troops...
...last, the U.S. people were learning the true nature of the enemy they fight in the Pacific, an enemy that seems to be a beast which sometimes stands erect...
Sombre Man. Erect, frail, handsome Edvard Munch came from a family of civil servants, well established in Norwegian cultural circles. A beautiful but weak child, young Edvard stopped school early to study art. He traveled in France and Italy on scholarships, studied under Pierre Bonnard at Paris...
...officialdom had prodded gently but persistently for this change. The new rate meant that the Army could construct or enlarge airfields, erect new quarters at half the former cost, thus forestall any future criticism of exorbitant expenditures in China. Officially, the Army and other U.S. agencies had been unable to buy Chinese dollars on inflated China's rampant black market (TIME, Dec. 6). Individually, Army personnel can continue to draw pay in U.S. dollars,turn a tidy profit in the black market; where the rate is still more than double the new official exchange...
...Netherlands East Indies, where native hens do not lay well and where imported chickens soon die from native poultry diseases, the chief egg supply is from penguin ducks (so called because they walk erect). Their eggs are also often infected with Salmonella...