Word: forfeit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City has asked its 35,000 teachers and other school employes to forfeit two weeks of their vacation, plans to use them in rotation (five groups) to teach civilian-defense precautions. One-fifth of the personnel will thus be on hand at all times, and all are to remain within 24-hour traveling distance of the city. Detroit, where most of the big motor plants have training programs of their own, also has its high schools teaching defense jobs round the clock. To qualify as factory inspectors during the summer, 325 teachers are studying shop processes...
...provided her 1,000,000 tough fighting men, the better. But she did not want to fight. Turkey was playing spin-the-bottle with all belligerents. As yet the mouth of the bottle hadn't turned into the muzzle of a cannon pointed at her and demanding a forfeit...
...gave the Russians a chance against the Nazi steam roller, wrote: "A war between Russia and Japan is ... inevitable. . . . Only the sudden collapse of Japan would avert such a war. . . . Japan must strike at Russia . . . while the other end of the Axis fights Russia in Europe, or else forfeit all hope of ever becoming the dominant power on the mainland of Asia...
...Army may keep its guests busy: laying broad-gauge track on the railway down the valley; driving a highway across the Sierras (nearest all-weather crossing is 400 miles away); farming. They will earn from $50 to $94 a month, with $15 deducted for living expenses. All they forfeit is their freedom. They cannot leave the camp without permission...
...Hopeful Forfeit. The Japanese conquest of the Andamans made a great difference to the Japanese, to Britain and to India. The British at New Delhi had to admit that it was conquest by default. The small garrison, the few colonials, civil servants and guards at the Indian penal center in Port Blair had abandoned the Andamans to the Japs. Ready for plucking were the 204 big & little Andamans and the adjoining Nicobar Islands, which curve between Burma's central coast and the northern tip of Sumatra, locking a gateway to the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean...