Word: fastener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second course came up-steaks for all except Tito, who ate stew. "I can write well here," he mused. "I used to write a lot too in Siberia." I asked him if he wrote in longhand. Tito nodded. "You ought to try a dictating machine," I suggested. "You fasten a microphone to your shirt. You can then pace the room, and when you think of those wonderful sentences you simply say them aloud." Tito changed the subject. But later his doctor grabbed me when we were alone. "What is it called, this new machine you fasten to your shirt...
...section of the press in both countries chose to fasten on the only exception, Bob Falkenburg. They magnified the regrettable incident in which he was booed by a small section of the crowd and printed his statement that the Wimbledon crowd is anti-American. It is enough to make a confirmed fan gnaw the net. The Wimbledon crowd is not anti-anybody. They queue for hours to study tennis and personalities, in that order. And they ask not if you won or lost, but how you played the game...
...Major Maddison, leading a rash reconnaissance into disastrous ambush, is shot by one of his own infuriated men. Colonel Pothecary's turn comes too. "[He] rose to his feet . . . ignoring the bullets that squealed around him . . . They saw him stoop, pick a white flower from a hedgerow and fasten it, without haste, in his lapel. Everywhere in the meadow men rose and moved forward with him." And so the bridge is taken, and so the Colonel dies, and so the battalion comes to "The Hill," a point beyond Caen, where the Germans had held long and stubbornly...
Hans Rietmann had no fear. On Christmas Eve, he entered the pit by himself. When he tried to fasten the chains around the elephant's hind legs, Chang turned and swept him up in his trunk...
...Prospect. Some Mexican papers hailed the decision as a triumph of Mexico over the gringos; others praised U.S. cooperation, expressed regret that the campaign had not been successful. U.S. cattle-raisers attacked the new policy, charged that it would tend to fasten the plague on Mexico, leave the way open for its spread...