Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while they seemed to be gaining. So, at 4 p.m. of the fifth day, said the Leros radio, with a British upper lip. At 5 p.m. it went off the air. Leros had fallen. The defenders were captured or escaped to Samos, where the Germans shortly announced fresh attacks to root out the last British force in the Aegean. This week they claimed its capture...
...more than another dish for the U.S. dinner table. In point of total tonnage, the small lake herring (9 to 15 in. long, 5 to 7 oz. in weight) is the biggest single catch taken annually from the teeming Great Lakes waters, which are the biggest single source of fresh-water fish in America. This year, despite the manpower shortage and a run almost two weeks late in starting, lake fishermen hope to lift 17 to 19 million Ib. from the shallow inshore waters where the herring come in to spawn. Such a catch, well under...
...Noblet Duplessis, a pink-cheeked opportunist who was once Premier of Quebec and would like to be again. He was there to address a typical pre-campaign meeting in Quebec, where all important political meetings are held on Sunday. Townspeople, farmers in from the country, all of them fresh from morning Mass, thronged to hear Maurice Duplessis make...
...Pershing landed in France. The Allies were bled white by three years of viselike war. They were low in morale and committed to holding trenches, but their spirits rose when Pershing and the A.E.F. arrived. The leaders of the British and French were eager to absorb this fresh new blood into their own thin blood streams...
...Lucky a Million Men Will Die!"), of an infant on a meatblock ("Nice Fresh Babies-79? a Pound"). The pacifist group killed compulsory military training out of the Defense Act of 1920; the regular Army was later cut to 125,000; Stallings' What Price Glory? had a long run. Everyone vowed again and again that it must not happen again...