Word: fastener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hoarding for Safety. We arrived in late afternoon, the time for the peasants' wives to be making supper-if they had any. We were met by three expressionless, grimy, starving boys. The abdomen of one was distended until he could not fasten his ragged garment over it; his translucent, putty-pale, bare skin showed a blue network of blood vessels...
...hrer. Grocer Bartholdy, said F.G.P.S., had been carefully coached and combed, then sent to Berlin "to die on the barri cades. ... He will act as Hitler's trump card, creating a hero legend around the Führer 's death, while Hitler himself goes underground." To fasten the hoax on posterity, Reichsbildberichterstatter (Photo graphic Reporter for the Reich) Heinrich Hoffmann would "be on hand to film Hitler's last moment on the battlefield."* -Whose 82nd birthday was celebrated this week at a San Simeon party attended by sons and satellites (Louella Parsons...
Gone was the original Perón, the swaggering soldier-politician who had defied the U.S., while Argentine militarists were trying to fasten on their reluctant nation a modified version of European Fascism. Candidate Perón, with the Nazis gasping on the ropes, was the smoothest of democrats. Obviously, he realized that his best chance to stay in power was to attach himself to the winning side, get himself elected as a "democratic" President...
When a military plane is six miles up, the crewmen are usually hampered by cumbersome clothing, by oxygen masks which fasten to stationary valves. Not so in the B29. It has a cabin which provides air near sea-level pressure at the highest ceiling...
...finally worked out a crude welding gun to make the job easier. But when he got "no thanks nor extra dough" he quit, and set to work perfecting his gun in a shop behind his home at Vallejo. His simple solution: encase the flux in a small cap and fasten it to the end of the stud. When the stud was loaded into his 7-lb. gun and the trigger pulled, a spring snapped the stud against the steel plate, electrically welding it in a trice...