Word: erection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five Confederate veterans huddled around a radio in Soldiers' Home, Atlanta, Ga., listening to the news. White-haired Major General Henry Taylor Dowling, who had fought with the First Florida Infantry, sat stiffly erect and announced: "The Georgia Division of the United Confederate Veterans is at war with Japan." Four nonagenarian heads nodded in fierce agreement...
...Some aristocratic Japanese have thin, aquiline noses, narrow faces and, except for their eyes, look like Caucasians. > Japanese are hesitant, nervous in conversation, laugh loudly at the wrong time. > Japanese walk stiffly erect, hard-heeled. Chinese, more relaxed, have an easy gait, sometimes shuffle...
...Baku" when they took the place, now called it "just another town." Russian spokesmen, having belittled the loss of the Donets Basin on the grounds that all industries were either removed or sabotaged beyond recovery, now gravely explained: "It is obviously easier to rebuild an existing plant than to erect a new one, particularly when skilled workers and technicians who are familiar with the damaged works are available...
...Trinity House is a Mariner's organization chartered by King Henry VIII in 1514 as a "Guild, Fraternity or Brotherhood of the Most Glorious and Undividable Trinity of St. Clement." Duties: to erect and manage coast lighthouses and buoys, operate the pilot service in harbors. In 1604 members were divided into Elder and Younger Brethren. There are 13 Elder Brethren, two from the Navy, eleven from the Merchant Marine; and 200 Younger Brethren, elected by the Elders. Trinity House is now a corporation. Churchill is an Elder Brother...
...they varied somewhat the play acting that goes with standard Nazi infiltration. Instead of the usual hocus-pocus about being "tourists," they assumed new roles. A large number were reported to have debarked at Beirut from a hospital ship as fake-wounded, bandaged, limping and laughing. Others, blond, husky, erect, entered via Turkey under bogus passports as refugee Rumanian Jews, their suitcases marked with large Js. At Aleppo, German officers were strutting about in shorts, apparently made up as sportsmen. It seemed there they were also miming French pilots. A group of French fighters which brought down a British bomber...