Word: let
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Let battle commence!" cried the Duke...
Cagily the Mahatma kept silence after his first viceregal visit. Later on he let it be known that Führer Hitler's camp was opposite his own and that he was a "sworn enemy of brute force." The Viceroy invited him back again, and then again, until last week His Excellency and the Mahatma saw each other for the third time in less than a month. Meanwhile, Lord Linlithgow busied himself with talks with other Indian leaders-princes, Moslems, Hindus, Sikhs...
...drifting without food or water, they sighted a ship. The first mate took out his bosun's whistle and "blew and blew and blew for some twenty minutes. It was that tiny whistle that made the Italian rescue ship [Provvidenza] change her course and head for us. They let down a rope ladder, but we all had to be helped to be dragged up. Whiskey and wine were given to the men. Auntie and I drank water. We refused food, we were that tired. So they let us go to sleep. Well, that...
...contact range. For harbor defense, "controlled" mines are fitted with electrically charged detonators discharged by a key from shore, or capable of being switched off to render them harmless to friendly ships. The harbor at Southampton is now guarded by a curtain of mines which is drawn aside to let friendly ships enter...
When the last Armistice was flashed, a minesweeping force sped into the Dardanelles and in 24 hours removed 600 British and enemy mines, to let the fleet move in to Istanbul. At home, Britain's mine-sweeping fleet contained 17,000 ships, with Great Grimsby, the fishing port at the mouth of the Humber River, as their main base. Shallow-draft fishing boats, motor launches, even paddle steamers were pressed into service. In the first two months of that war, for every two mines swept up, one trawler was lost. By 1918, the rate was 80 mines swept...