Word: gird
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...this juncture last week that the U.S., belatedly but determinedly, turned. In his flat, Missouri accent, President Truman at last lifted the nation from its easygoing "grey mobilization" into the first real phase of total preparation. In the setting of Christmas time, Christendom's mightiest nation began to gird itself in earnest to face the prospect of total...
...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...