Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacArthur had the qualifications. As a young man, he had seen Japan in the flush of its victory (1905) over decadent Tsarist Russia. He had studied the Jap military machine and its methods. He had seen something of the Orient when he was an aide to his roving father, Lieut. General Arthur MacArthur...
When Eaton returned to North Africa, he was flush with a $20,000 revolution-promotion fund. His first task was to find the rightful Pasha, who had fled in terror far up the Nile. After a two-month search he found his man. Somewhat reluctantly, Hamet signed a treaty of alliance with the U.S., made Eaton a general in his army, and agreed to march on Tripoli...
...Photographs passed by Navy censors disclosed an important feature of U.S. carrier practice: the use of catapults, flush with the flight decks, for carrier-plane takeoffs. Benefits: fewer losses in takeoffs, more planes (and more striking power) per carrier...
...Flush. In Missoula, Mont., John Brandenburg was jailed when he refused to pay a $5 fine and stubbornly flushed all his money - $1,055 - down a courthouse toilet...
...first faint flush of light that sometimes precedes the dawn is called the false dawn...