Word: fore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wind blew fitfully; long swells rolled outside the breakwater. The Presidential yacht Potomac, armed for the first time with .50-calibre machine guns fore & aft, prepared to cast off, tied up again at reports of rougher weather coming. From the rail of the Arauca, the 44 interned German sailors watched the drinks being passed around on the Potomac's afterdeck, stared at the Presidential party-Harry Hopkins, Cabinet Officers Robert Jackson and Harold Ickes, the President's physician, Rear Admiral Ross Mclntire, Secretaries "Pa" Watson and Steve Early...
...Iraq and a potential threat to French-mandated Syria. Through the process of raiding his treasury and letting the British bail him out, Ab dullah presently found himself completely under the thumb of Great Britain. Last week the British used Abdullah and his kingdom for the purpose they had fore seen long ago: as a nucleus for an Arab front against the Axis and as a threat to French-held Syria...
...Atlanta, after working the night be fore until 3 a.m. on blueprints, the general manager of Scripto Manufacturing Co., which has orders for shell fuse-boosters, confided: "My wife and the wives of the other management men are threatening to divorce us because they never see us. If I were ten years younger, I'd enlist as a buck private and let somebody else worry about all this...
...Student Union condemned the bill as one more step toward a war that most Americans do not want, and fore-saw establishment of a military dictatorship if it were passed...
...hasten to congratulate you on your bold front page article of Harvard's Ku Klux Klan invasion. With all respect to the worthy and essential members of the press, may I ask why the facts have not been brought to the fore at a prior date? Ludicrous, indeed, is the thought that a Washington editor, in the guise of a spectator, must tell the police where to look for the criminal. Can it be that this paper is so dedicated to an impossible program of neutrality, that it hates to publish the intimate truth unless the outside world first backs...