Word: holing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the face of Congressional opposition, Franklin Roosevelt once again went to the rescue of Wyoming's mountain-hemmed Jackson Hole. Two years ago by executive order, he made Jackson Hole a national monument after Congress had refused to make it a national park. Now he firmly vetoed a bill to abolish it as a monument...
...last fight over Jackson Hole has not yet been fought. As the 79th Congress convened, Wyoming's Senator Joseph O'Mahoney readied a new bill, which would abolish the Presidential right to create national monuments by executive order...
...magazine many a news scoop, presided benevolently over inventors, encouraging the sincere, diligently exposing the fakers. (Typical case: a "perpetual motion" machine which baffled everybody until Scientific American's editors X-rayed it, discovered inside a clocklike apparatus which could be wound by key through a simulated worm-hole...
...area they were shot at by self-propelled guns and Spandaus which covered the ground with cross fire. They had a close call and were pretty shaken when they got back to our foxholes after having crawled 200 yards along a muddy ditch. One of them slumped into my hole, out of breath. I said: "A bit tough out there, huh?" "Tough," he replied, "it's bl-bl-bloody awful...
...shaded hole from the blistering...