Word: flings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than a series of coastal guns. It was not just a wall, a thing to be pierced. It was a mobile fortress. Its walls could move from hill to hill. It consisted of great pools of armor and flesh, standing well inland from the coasts, ready to fling themselves at enemy beachheads, and of planes and submarines, striking on the approaches to the coasts...
...Thomas' reputation with the baton increased, his finances became more confused than ever. In the early 'aos, in a complete economic dither, he gave up music altogether, concentrated for four years on balancing his books. By 1927 he had decided to take a fling at the U.S. He left London in one of his monumental (and dramatically effective) huffs. Said he: "England is finished, not only musically, but every other way. The only thing for anybody to do is to give up and go to America. After a few months' experience as a guest, I will stay...
...Stokes of Philadelphia in the Journal of the American Medical Association: "The oldtime prostitute in a house or the formal prostitute on the street is sinking into second place. The new type is the young girl in her late teens and early twenties . . . who is determined to have one fling or better. . . . The carrier and disseminator of venereal disease today is just one of us, so to speak...
Chile's break with the Axis had been expected sooner. But one last fling at an attempt to tie her course to Argentine neutrality had delayed the action by a week. Robust old (74) Arturo Alessandri, three-time President and "Lion of Tarapacá," rallied the opposition parties of the Right, brought forth a manifesto asking for a plebiscite on the issue. Perhaps the most vigorous and picturesque bourgeois liberal in half a century of Chilean politics, Alessandri succeeded in provoking a new storm of discussion. But the Government prudently declared a plebiscite unconstitutional. A Congress majority, from Radicals...
...first World War the spring vacation was not abolished, and Commencement and Class Day took place on their traditional days, with simplified ceremony. Last year's Class Day was stripped of its most colorful feature, the confetti battle and parade at Harvard Stadium, and 1943's final fling will also be shorn of its peacetime luxury...