Word: himly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A Lieutenant, and after him a Captain, a Major and a Colonel all came up to see what the fuss was about. Sam was adamant. " 'E knocked it down. Reckon 'e picks it oop or it stays where it is-at me feet."
Realizing what the Mahatma's good will means, Lord Linlithgow lost no time in cordially inviting the aged Indian boss to talk over "cooperation." Mr. Gandhi, no longer the flaming revolutionary of yore, obviously would have liked to oblige his British friends. Plagued with the vision of a possible...
Cagily the Mahatma kept silence after his first viceregal visit. Later on he let it be known that Führer Hitler's camp was opposite his own and that he was a "sworn enemy of brute force." The Viceroy invited him back again, and then again, until last...
Some Lancashire Sam dropped his musket somewhere on the Western Front last week. And by what seemed a mutual agreement with the enemy, no officer pleaded with him to pick it up and get on with the battle. All was quiet. There was here a scouting party, there an exchange...
Describing a night fusillade, the New York Times War Correspondent G. H. Archambault caught the eerie nature of this war of waiting: "A watcher in some trench may fire at what he imagines to be shadowy shapes crawling toward him. His shot proves contagious. Machine guns begin their battle, field...