Word: flowerpots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their power of pretending that things are not so ... [They] live in cities but they are not citified . . . They are urbane without being urban . . . They can dwell in the midst of 20 miles of paving stones and pretend, with the aid of a back green or even of a flowerpot, that they are in a hamlet on the Downs." Yet this self-deception is not all lost. "Modern England," the Times points out, is "a series of city streets . . . Nine out of ten Englishmen anywhere are born in the towns and bred in the streets. Yet out of these streets...
...came sneaking back to Bill's room later on, Bill chased him off to Texas. But George kept writing him letters (always copying Bill's script) and then he came back to Chicago and promptly started on more burglary. When a cop knocked him cold with a flowerpot in an apartment foray one night, George turned out to be Bill...
...considers her the deftest of all living flowerpot and gong whackers...
...most powerful flying battleships now under construction: 26 four-engined B-24s (Consolidated Aircraft's heavy bombers), 20 four-engined B-17Cs (Boeing Flying Fortresses). All are to be equipped with Sperry bomb sights, the U. S. military secret, supposedly able to land a bomb in a flowerpot from 30,000 feet. Retained, noted both General Marshall and the President, was the Norden bomb sight, which has made the Sperry obsolete...