Word: expels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pronounce k and g; if he has no hard palate, he has trouble with t, d, n, r, 1; if he has a harelip, he cannot make the sounds p, m, f, v, w. Such people need surgical treatment, or perhaps a mechanical palate. Their main problem is to expel air through the mouth, not the nose. To learn this, they blow soap bubbles and rubber balloons, sometimes hold to their lips an "airflow indicator"-a gadget consisting of a wheel which revolves when air escapes from the mouth, a paper which flutters when air is exhaled from the nose...
MADRID--Diplomatic reports from Berne tonight said that Germany may soon officially request Switzerland to expel all British nationals, including diplomats, within a certain fixed time, in the same manner that German and Italian nationals and diplomats were expelled from Syris, Iraq and Iran...
After this deed Ante Pavelitch took refuge in Italy, which refused to expel him for French trial. He was sentenced to death in absentia. Last week he proclaimed himself first President of the new Croatia, including Bosnia. Herzegovina, Dalmatia and the old Croat Province. He named as his Premier his fellow Terrorist Slavko Kvaternik. Balkan experts tended to discount as propaganda rumors that the venerable Croat Peasant Leader Vladimir Matchek had sided with the peasant-haters...
Democrat Whitaker accepted an Italian War Cross after reporting the Fascist conquest of Ethiopia, and Fascist bigwigs sorely embarrassed him by insisting that they had "nothing personal" against him, would not formally expel him. He demanded formal expulsion. Instead, red-faced John T. Whitaker was told with Italian finesse: "You are not expelled, but you must leave." Pressed, Italian officials finally set the time limit for Correspondent Whitaker's departure at "about ten days." To the credit of tall, slender, wavy-dark-brown-haired Oustee Whitaker is a recent realistic work Americas to the South (Macmillan; $2.50), which...
...Jules Verne. He has discovered a substance called therminite which burns at 6,000 degrees, melts all metals, renders water explosive by breaking it down into hydrogen and oxygen. He has invented a delayed-action "explosive" which explodes so gradually that it can be used on sinking submarines to expel water and chlorine. He has devised a magnetic screen so powerful that when it is struck by bombs it shatters them to fragments. Last week he was back on the air for Chicago's WGN and other Mutual stations after a summer pause, still busy saving...