Word: hinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That magnificent character, the British Lion, forgot his Anglican manners last week, got up on his hind legs, and roared right in the face of his U.S. ally. The roar raised a transatlantic gale, but it also vented British vapors which had accumulated during five years of mannerly restraint. Afterward, the Lion felt better. The American objects of his spleen knew a little more about him and perhaps about themselves. British-U.S. relations may even have been improved by the week's exchange. Said the New York Sun: "A steady diet of mutual admiration and respect would...
...Workers' Union frowned on sectional representation because it already had 16 members in Parliament, the cabbies overrode him, voted to go ahead. Grunted Spokesman Ted Morland of Fulham: "It's abaht time our ruddy trade got a look in. I wouldn't mind getting on me hind legs meself and telling ol' Winnie wot he ought to do abaht...
Brereton's plane circled over The Neth erlands as the C-47s disgorged. The first paratroopers landed along the Rhine delta near the sea. Brereton's craft left them be hind, flew on over a huge expanse of flooded lowlands, where the bright red roofs of the white Dutch houses showed above the blue waters. Here the Germans had created a vast last ditch...
...Allies had a formidable waiting army - the airborne legions of Lieut. Gen eral Lewis H. Brereton - for landings be hind any stubborn German defense line...
...crinkle-eyed pipe-smoker in the Kremlin appeared fit and trim as a new Stormovik. Tadeusz Romer, former Polish Ambassador to Moscow, now back again with Premier Mikolajczyk, had not seen Joseph Stalin since early 1943. Romer found Stalin looking "years younger." ?>e-hind the tobacco haze the old revolutionist could well shrug his shoulders, and utter his characteristic-rejoinder: "Pochemu niet...