Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure that something happened on September 15 . . . . I woke up to hear our next door neighbour backing his car stealthily out of the garage . . . . I leant out the window. The night was calm and moonlit; the moon sparkled on the flat sea. And there was a subdued hum everywhere, far and near, as if hundreds of cars were on the roads and lanes. I was so restless . . . . I got up and dressed and went out, up the road a little way into the fields. I could hear, faintly, how car after car changed gear as it went up the steep...
Many a dollar-a-year man trying to make the best of things in Washington may feel that FORTUNE is ingenuous in implying that only his own lack of initiative prevents his taking control of the production effort and making it hum. Many may feel that FORTUNE failed to give due credit for the absolute accomplishments to date-the camps constructed, the plants built, the ships launched, despite the confusion and misjudgments...
...Here we meet while from across the Atlantic Ocean the hammers and lathes of the United States signal in a rising hum their message of encouragement and their promise of swift and ever-growing...
Paul Revere adulated Adolf Hitler every night except Saturdays (DXP and DJB -11:30 E.D.S.T.), but so dully that a more fitting name for him might have been Lord Ho-Hum. Last week, celebrating his 52nd birthday ("the exact age of Hitler, the most successful man in the world"), he revealed himself as Chicago-born Douglas Chandler...
...foundations for your successful career as a soldier." Since 1919 the hard-boiled sergeant, the bull-roaring officer have been fading from the military scene. Their replacements are officers and noncoms taught that intelligent teamwork, not dumb obedience, is what an army needs to make it hum, that enlisted soldiers must know (at least generally) the whys & wherefores of what they are told...