Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though their riveted M35 sustained some shell hits, no rivets bounced about inside. Main fault in the tanks: an incendiary bullet, stuck in the pencil-thin crevice between the revolving turret and hull, froze the turret tight. The tankers unfroze the turret with an acetylene torch. (This defect has been corrected in the newer M-45, which have a collar over the crevice...
Clarence Decatur Howe, Canada's amiable, U.S.-educated Minister of Munitions and Supply, was arrested, fined $10 and costs in Hull, Quebec. The charge: lighting his pipe during a local blackout...
Good, grey Cordell Hull had worked over his speech with the patience of a thorough man. He had dictated it to a battery of secretaries, revised and corrected it in his laborious, Victorian longhand. Now, sitting at his desk before twelve microphones, he carefully took his hornrimmed pince-nez from the breast pocket of his grey suit, carefully shook out the anchoring length of black ribbon, carefully spoke to the world about World...
...November 1941, Cordell Hull strongly warned Army & Navy chiefs that the Far Eastern crisis had outstripped the bounds of diplomacy. Two weeks before Pearl Harbor he suggested that all hands in the Pacific be alert against a big-scale attack that would "stampede the hell out of our scattered forces...
...these agreements U.S. businessmen could see a post-war world in which the four strongest nations are pledged to the economic principles old Cordell Hull has long preached as the only true foundations for lasting international peace...