Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy's Case. Next day, on Capitol Hill, in the full glare of newsreel lights. the Navy at last told what had been gnawing at its heart. Its spokesman was four-star Admiral Radford, the man naval aviators everywhere recognize as their champion, the officer who built the Navy's wartime air arm as director of aviation training, a brilliant fighting commander, and long an outspoken enemy of service unification...
Later at a firing-range observation post he watched heavily burdened paratroopers -850 in all-come tumbling out of the sky. Tons of ammunition and equipment hit the ground as they assembled and opened fire. In the neatest trick of the day, four C-82s dropped four huge 105 mm. howitzers and four towing jeeps. All but one gun floated safely down under billowing, 100 ft. cargo chutes, and the cannon were firing within twelve minutes after delivery...
...some respects of such extraordinary virulence," said Hiss, he thought there was no chance of getting a fair trial in Manhattan. To back up his argument, he produced photostats of 40 New York newspaper articles which he considered prejudicial to his defense and the affidavits of two of the four jurors who voted for his acquittal in his first trial. Both of them swore that they had received threatening letters and postcards, urging them: "Drop dead or go to Russia." Hiss wanted the new trial to be held in Vermont, where he had spent the summer, and where "the press...
...decades as a professional burglar, gaunt, nervous Steve Rumnoch had done nicely at his specialty-breaking into houses. His score: 800 jobs, no arrests. But he had been caught four times for breaking into stores, had spent 15 years in prison. Life behind walls was intolerable to him and he grew morose and hopeless in "stir." Nevertheless during his last stretch, 34 months at the Iowa State Penitentiary, he forced himself to plan a better life for the future...
...British discovered that at this point there was hardly a dry eye in the Russian audience. They also discovered that there were three other similar pictures current, one of them Shkola Nenavisti (The School of Hate), which was about the Irish rebellion. They found, further, that all four films, although they had soundtracks in Russian, were simply described as "foreign films," without hint of origin. The prevalence of blond Teutonic types led to a search of Dr. Goebbels' files. It turned out that Die Letzte Runde and The School of Hate (in German, Mein Leben fü Irland) were...