Word: gird
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome on a $4, 000,000-to-$5,000,000 budget, a whopper for an economy-minded industry. Already shipped from Hollywood were 125 of 150 scheduled tons of equipment, including giant generators to feed the Technicolor arc lamps. Planes had flown eight tons of armor, enough to gird a Roman army of 2,500. On Manhattan's Times Square, a huge sign ballyhooing the picture was up in "fade-proof" paint...
...this day, which is called Satur Day, thou shalt gird up thy loins to the mud land of the east, into the Downs that are called Suffolk...
...that day, which is called Mon Day, thou shalt gird up thy loins to the mud lands of the cast, into the Downs that are called Suffolk...
...Eliot's gird team crushed Lowell yesterday, 13 to 0, and pushed itself up into immediate striking distance of league-leading Kirkland...
...many Montrealers are likely to forget that they too are a maritime people no less than those whose homes gird the salt seas," said the Montreal Gazette last week. A thousand miles from the sea, Montreal is at the end of Canada's ocean navigation, and at the portal of 1,200 miles of inland waters. From December to April the port is ice-locked. Yet it handles a third of Canada's commerce, exports more grain than any other port on the North American continent. It is closer to Liverpool than any U.S. seaport, is the nearest...