Word: hennings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pearl Harbor. Now the job of being a constant goad on production was added to Hopkins' functions. He listened to the bustling airmen, and agreed without batting an eye that the U.S. could meet their seemingly fantastic wants. It was he who always put the ostrich egg in the hen coop, who always raised the sights over the last highest production estimate. In 1941, shown the estimated merchant-ship construction for the year, he blandly doubled the figure. At year's end, the total construction was even higher...
...erase their names without cause, other than the accident of birth and race, reduces our honor rolls to an array of meaningless painted boards. To the American Legion Post of Hood, Ore., three hearty Bronx cheers! EVANGELINE S. McALLISTER (The Sage Hen) Bayard...
...Eggs Hen fruit...
...Russian fairy tale, Vasilisa the All-Wise walks up to the little hut that stands on hen's legs and says : "Little hut, little hut, turn with your face to me and your back to the sea." And the voice of Baba Yaga, the witch, answers from within the hut: "Fee fo fum, I smell Russian blood. For today the Russian spirit is marching through the world, and it throws itself on your breast and it slaps you in the face...
Wooden Crosses. It is not Puller's belligerence and cold nerve alone which make him a great field officer. Chesty says: "It takes a lifetime to become a good, officer." Devoted to his men, he watches over them like an old hen. Said a sergeant: "You're afraid to talk about the old man because likely as not he'll be right behind you whether you're in a foxhole, on the line during an attack, or standing in line for chow...