Word: faints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pacific South Seas last week came a faint echo of Europe's thundering wars. The scattered islands of New Hebrides (off the east coast of Australia), which owe allegiance to Britain & France jointly, repudiated the Government of Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain in Vichy, pledged their resources and man power to the "free France" of General Charles de Gaulle in London. In nearby French-owned New Caledonia, where Governor Marie-Marc-Georges Pélicier has offered his allegiance to the Pétain Government, the local assembly declared its intention of continuing the war under General...
...check a complex theory about the relation of the heavenly bodies to weather cycles. He is equally fond of integral calculus and boomerang throwing. Both have their uses: calculus helps in working out agricultural formulas; boomerangs, tennis, badminton, horseback riding give him exercise and open air. thus combating a faint family strain of tuberculosis which has not touched robust Henry Wallace...
...Paris one morning went Léon Nöel, a member of the Commission, to negotiate with General Alfred von Vollard Bockelberg, the German military governor of the Paris region. Nazis were in no hurry to arrange the transfer. For one thing, they could still detect a faint, sweet odor of republicanism in Pétain's authoritarian regime. Then there was the problem of finding quarters: most of the old Government's buildings in Paris and Versailles were occupied by Germans...
...crew herded as many passengers as possible into lifeboats before the Washington was sunk by a torpedo. On the captain's orders, the ship's photographer clicked a record of the scene. In the chill dawn women and children began to pile into the boats. Faint light played over the flags painted on the Washington's sides, but the flag suspended between its funnels glowed under floodlights. Though ten minutes was not enough, there was no panic...
They cared-and would continue to. no matter how faint their voices in the thunder of war. So did the U. S. care-under certain circumstances. The country waited to see whether or not the G. 0. P. would nominate a man who could be the nation's leader. The Party's problem was to pick such a man, or resign the nation's leadership to Franklin Roosevelt...