Word: fightingest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veteran of seven years of service in the "fightingest" of outfits, this lieutenant is a real Marine, coming up through the ranks. Seems that all during his career he's been thrown into contact with the Navy; as an enlisted man he served in the Marine detachment on board the U.S.S. Colorado. Upon graduation he will revert back to the Marine Corps itself for a change, for he's headed to Camp Lejeune, New River...
There was much complaining upriver, but little was done about it until Argentina's reactionary Government put itself out of good international society by its too-friendly attitude toward Germany. Then things began to happen. Paraguay, with its strategic position and the fightingest population in South America, was courted from all sides. Big and arming Brazil gave a 100,000 conto loan ($5,170,000), gave President Morinigo a royal tour, offered freeport privileges at Santos on the open Atlantic. The U.S. has constructed a much-needed road in Paraguay, is building another, and has flooded the little country...
...such reasons-and out of mere curiosity to see what a repudiated Vice President would do next-the U.S. watched Henry Wallace in Detroit this week. They saw him, in the fightingest phrases of his 54 years, speak his own continued faith in the New Deal...
...long time the destroyer was silent, as she also threw a beam, and the admiral kept asking: "Who is it? Who is it? Acknowledge. Acknowledge." Finally came the destroyer's voice: "I am sorry to report it is Five Zero." That was the number of one of the fightingest ships in the Pacific: the cruiser Helena...
Everybody loves a comeback. Last week flat-faced, chocolate-colored little Henry Armstrong, who once held the feather, light-and welterweight championships of the world simultaneously, endeared him self to the ring fans with one of the fightingest comebacks that ever lost the judges' decision. His defeat was a great success...