Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over occupied Europe the food situation was growing worse. Nazi plundering to keep the Wehrmacht fed was felt more than ever by the occupied countries. As the Wehrmacht marches on its stomach, so does anti-Nazi terrorism. It takes food to make the first fight, hunger to make the latter...
...allus has. Seems it's purty near the same thing every year-lot o' the old 'uns ain't 'round no more, but a flock o' fresh stock is in, 'rarin' to go and creatin' a pile o' fuss per usual. This hyar piece is aimed at the latter (that's a two-bit word.) Mebbe so some of us old nags can fork you young colts of '45 a little solid horse-sense afore you go throwin' shoes all over the range...
Last week China was in the front of the anti-Axis fight. Over the Burma Road moved supplies from her western allies. A U.S. military mission was going to Chungking. Last week Chinese land forces launched an offensive that carried them to the gates of Nanchang and Foochow, the latter on the coast 880 miles east of Chungking. China's minuscule but growing Air Force bombed Hanshan and Tsingteh, nearly 700 miles from Chungking, and returned without a casualty. By 1943 China expected to be strong enough in the air to bomb the Japanese on their own soil...
...former looked like a lock of death -to which the Germans seemed to hold the key. The latter was a deadlock of inanities...
...horsecars, and then several railroads. Roughnecks, sports, plug-uglies and vulgar politicians began to jostle nice people. In 1920, when the subway reached Coney, people from the-city's steaming tenements could get dunked for two nickels, by simply wearing bathing suits under their outer clothes, discarding the latter when they got to the beach. Bitter bathhouse owners called them "drippers" because they dripped on the subways going home. Recently New York's famed and inexorable Park Commissioner Robert Moses estimated that on a jampacked Sunday each person at Coney had about 16 square feet of beach-enough...