Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toothy smile as El Hombre Diente-The Man Tooth. The Man Tooth listened to an interpreter repeat the Argentine proposal, smiled a tablewide smile. Caceres said copies of the proposal would be sent to home Governments. The members nodded, did not discuss the matter further. They re-elected Cordell Hull president of the Board and adjourned...
...lines, and in Elwood has created a very special character-droll, daffy, warmhearted, touching. It is also partly delightful because Elwood, who on a stage could easily become incredible or dismaying, is played to perfection by veteran Vaudevillian Frank Fay (as is Elwood's harassed sister by Josephine Hull). Fay not only makes Elwood a fine fellow when he is riding high; he makes him an even finer one when, in a tricky scene where mood is everything, he quietly talks to a psychiatrist about himself and Harvey, and sometimes doesn't talk-only sits and stares...
...flew off hundreds of planes from their repaired fields. Although no less than 150 were shot down, some of them got in at the light carrier Princeton. She was bombed and set afire, gradually went to pieces as one explosion after another racked her slim 10,000-ton cruiser hull. When the main magazine went, she had to be sunk by U.S. gunfire...
...invaded, there was still no completed plans for its occupation, said Dewey, although General Eisenhower had warned last January that the U.S. would have to deal with that problem in 1944. And when President Roosevelt met with Churchill at Quebec to discuss such plans, he took along not Cordell Hull but the Secretary of the Treasury, "whose qualifications on military and international affairs are still a closely guarded military secret. . . . Germany's Propaganda Minister Goebbels has seized upon the whole episode to terrify the Germans into fanatical resistance. On the basis of our Treasury's ill-conceived proposals...
Larsen joined the R.C.M.P., not to be a policeman but to become an Arctic mariner for the force. His ship, the St. Roch, was specially built for Arctic voyaging. A diesel-powered schooner, she was built of timbers two-thirds heavier than those used in any ordinary craft. Her hull is sheathed in Australian ironbark-the only wood that can stand the grinding pressure of the pack...