Word: feds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frequently enclosed in the letters are photographs of the writers and their families; the ex-submariner sent along pictures of all his brothers and sisters and a flock of fiends. The original batch of letters also included a number of apparently well-fed blondes, many stating that "my friends say I am very pretty." A serious paper shortage has made ordinary writing stationery nearly unavailable, especially in Eastern Germany, and the letters frequently arrive written on the backs of carefully folded military maps dating from the Russian campaign or even on wallpaper...
...escape kit, which contained a small, highly tempered saw. "The bars in that jail were brass," Chuck says. "The saw ate right through them." He and his pals "fooled around Spain for a while, swiping chickens." Then the British gathered them up and forwarded them to England. "The British fed us good," says Chuck, "I gained 25 pounds." Right off, he shot down five Germans...
...multitude on the College's meager meat supply has resulted in a meatless catastrophe, and yet, in the confines of the University itself, there is a solution. I have evolved a plan whereby all undergraduates and a part of the physically handicapped people of Greater Boston can be generously fed...
...Later it might go as high as 3,000° F. No immediate attempt was made to produce a useful, combustible gas: the first thing was to see how steadily the coal could be made to burn. Later, hot air, steam or oxygen could be fed into Borehole No. 1 to make a variety of gases with different chemical and thermal properties...
...cons of his bill to make simplified spelling compulsory in all British schools, films and copyrighted literature. No foreigner, the bill provided, would be naturalized until he had mastered the new spelling. "Fourteen million schoolchildren," pleaded Dr. Follick, "are wasting their time over [the old] spelling." (One hundred fifty "fed-up" schoolboys wrote in to cry "hear, hear!") A simpler English comprehensible to foreigners, he went on, would be of inestimable value to international relations. Tory M.P. Christopher Hollis made a shrewd comment on this motion. Said Hollis: "I do not think we should like Mr. Molotov any better...