Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five years in prison and a $10,000 fine each. The eleventh got a $10,000 fine and three years in prison. Robert Thompson, New York state chairman of the party, had gotten a lighter sentence because of his war record: he won the Distinguished Service Cross in New Guinea for swimming a swollen river under fire and, with his platoon, wiping out two pillboxes. Comrade Thompson was not exactly grateful for the favor. "Judge Medina attempted with a last-minute two-bit maneuver to cloak his vicious class role with a whitewash of judicial fairness," Thompson complained later...
...outnum by the Japanese. MacArthur told flatly that his new command was in combat and that he had no for its top officers. It looked as if MacArthur was right. The next day at noon, Kenney looking on, 27 Jap planes attacked a U.S. airdrome near Port Mores New Guinea. The Japs got away without being touched by U.S. fighters. Even the antiaircraft shooting was wretchedly ineffective . 150 to 0. General Kenney Reports is Kenney's brash, galloping and long-winded explanation of how he all that. Short (5 ft. 6 in.), bristle-haired and scar-cheeked, Kenney ruthlessly...
...guinea pig he used was a single play of the Dartmouth football team. The movements of the backs are given in the black-bordered portion of the diagram below, and it may be noted that their actions in the five variations of the play are identical in each case for the major part of the play...
Sarnoff still had to find the exact spot on a human neck where the current would hit the "motor point" of the phrenic nerve. For this, his Swiss-born wife Charlotte (who is also his laboratory assistant) served as a human guinea pig. When they found the spot, after hours of probing her neck with the electrode, her diaphragm contracted forcefully and she took a gusset-popping deep breath. Dr. Sarnoff had proved his device. Last year, he and his team of coworkers* called in a manufacturer to make technical improvements in the machine and turn out a pilot model...
Then comes Saturday and you're supposed to win a game using your own defense and offense. Actually, any contact work the jayvees get in while guinea pigging for the varsity is to their advantage but it isn't the same as a practice session which can be of direct benefit...