Word: loth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Copello letter, and the subsequent row over just what it meant, fanned a smoldering feud between Argentine liberals and the church. The liberals, mostly good Catholics themselves, think the church too powerful, too meddlesome and too expensive. The church, which still enjoys medieval prerogatives in Argentina, is loth to give an inch...
...Bavarian hills last week Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's U.S. Seventh Army hit a weak spot and found a German sore spot. His loth Armored Division carved a startling 30-mile breakthrough to within 45 miles of the upper waters of the Danube. This was a delicate area for the Nazis-the Napoleonic route of invasion toward Vienna. Over it Patch's men might strike through to split Germany...
Died. Technical Sergeant Torger Tokle, 25, towheaded, Norwegian-born ski-jump champion of the Western Hemisphere (289 feet), ex-Brooklyn carpenter; from German shell-fragment wounds; near Monte Torraccio, Italy, as his loth Mountain Infantry Division made a four-mile advance...
...thick with rumors of trouble: that a white boy had been killed by Negroes; that three Negro girls had beaten up a white school girl ; that a Negro had stolen a white boy's girl. As the column of "delegates" approached the Negroes, Cambridge police arrived. They seemed loth to intervene...
...raid of May loth ... I had a seat in the stalls, having arranged to spend that night on St. Paul's Cathedral. St. Paul's has already had two direct hits, but Wren's structure is standing up to it amazingly well (if you go back stage in the cathedral you notice with what extraordinary ingenuity and thoroughness-and solidity-the whole thing is put together). ... It was a night of a full moon which half the time was lost in fire clouds, and from midnight till dawn H.E. bombs and incendiaries fell all over the City...