Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presents for men were more mundane, but it was possible to buy a $150 cigaret lighter or a $25 necktie...
...Navy had already tried 207 other Negro sailormen and found them guilty of disobeying orders on the same rebellious occasion. Unlike the 50, the 207 had not persisted in their refusal to load explosives. Punishments (also unannounced) were undoubtedly lighter...
Quartermasters are now testing 1,000 new lighter-weight poplin uniforms in Burma...
...those nine days they had fought for the bridge in the streets and houses of Arnhem-and the Germans had bashed down the houses, one by one. There had been daylong, nightlong battles for a patch of open field, where the British had pitted their parachuted Piats* and even lighter weapons against the Germans' tanks -and had made the tanks turn tail...
Only one big novelty in record manufacturing was contemplated for postwar production: a new disc made from vinylite or other plastic, which will be 1) lighter in weight, 2) superior in surface qualities, 3) practically unbreakable...