Word: fists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Along with a time whistle, an Eliot Houce saucer, an Ibis, three Dunster spoons, a Shakespeare Folio and a sign from the Fogg reading "Please refrain from breathing on the walls," there was one copy, slightly mutilated, of the 25th Anniversary Guide. Grasping it tightly in our grubby little fist, we fled in terror...
...United Nations will use China as a base for large-scale bombing attacks on Japan, as well as on Formosa, Hainan, Indo-China and other Japanese outpost bases. Particularly suited for such use would be the peninsula of Shantung Province, which reaches out toward Japan like an angry fist, and the great bulge of Chekiang Province, within four-motor range of half of Japan...
First A.E.F. reaction to the announcement of Yank was a squawk. U.S. troops in Australia griped at the title. They have already had fist fights with Aussies who insist on calling them Yanks. Most of those who got into scraps were Southerners, but other U.S. troops down under don't like the gritty name any better. To avoid unnecessary bloodshed, some Australian commanders have ordered their troops to lay off "Yank...
...could stop the convoys, but the convoys are still getting through. Recently the Germans sent the Luftwaffe's Field Marshal Albert Kesselring-who blueprinted the razings of Coventry and Warsaw-to Sicily, already bristling with German airpower. Kesselring had a blueprint ready for Malta, too; he cocked his fist and let fly across the short gap of blue water...
Oblique Chat. The women of London could not so easily forget. Housewives fretted about paying tenpence for limp lettuce and a shilling for fist-sized cauliflower. They muddied their boots and sprained their elderly tweed skirts poking around in wartime garden plots while they dreamed of home-grown peas and tomatoes, talked about with such annoyingly leisured learnedness in Mr. Middleton's column in the Daily Express. Still, it was pleasant to read about-more pleasant than to chat obliquely about the strange restlessness that spring seemed to have released throughout the nation...