Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These stories were in exact key with the anti-De Gaulle stories that had poured forth for months from North Africa. The drive became so hot and so obvious that Columnist Walter Lippmann cried: It is time "to stop the official propaganda campaign for Giraud and against De Gaulle...
Those who were unable to watch the races followed them in the newspapers. The London Times published the daily bumps in chart form that, to the uninitiated, looked like sabotage in a wire factory. Each bump was minutely described, with a recording of the exact spot where it occurred-such as Haystack Corners, Free Ferry, The Willows or The Gut -instead of fractional times or distances. Not uncommon were such headlines as "Jesus bumped St. John...
...Navy Officers in the Square. The congregation to Hayes-Bick. Harvard was old Harvard, when Hitler was a pup, and this war wouldn't make any more difference than the other six or seven in her history had. The Vagabond wasn't quite sure how many it was, but exact figures are unimportant. The University was yielding gradually and gracefully; this Y-12 business wouldn't affect Fair Harvard any more than it would affect indifferent Vagabond...
...harmed in the least by the fact that relatively little is known of the Stewart group. In peacetime only schooners in the copra trade call there. Sikaiana, one and a quarter miles long, is the largest of the five islands sur rounding a broad lagoon. But even its exact geographical location is disputed: A 1933 report indicated that it lies some 13 miles east of where the charts show...
...Pilot Kurtz the war began on a sunny day at Clark Field near Manila when the news of Pearl Harbor had just begun to sink in. The exact moment came when the pilots were waiting for orders for their first combat mission: a reconnaissance of Formosa, which they could not attack because the U.S. Congress had not yet declared war. From the direction of Formosa, as they knew they would, some 70 Japanese bombers came over and blew Clark Field to hell with a beautiful pattern of bombs, unmolested from the air, little molested from the ground. Twenty-four Flying...