Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...related types which the Russians call Stormoviks and the Germans "Black Death." Slow, cumbersome, low-ceilinged, the Stormovik is heavily armored. Its primary job is tank and fort-busting, which it accomplishes with eight rocket bombs under each wing, two heavy cannon, four machine guns...
...late evening sky over Vatican City a low-flying plane hummed and hovered ominously. Below, within the weathered walls of the tiny neutral state, men listened anxiously. At 8:10 o'clock the sound of the intruding plane was blotted out by the sound of bursting explosive. Four bombs had fallen, the first to hit the capital of Catholicism. There were no human casualties. St. Peter's had not been hit, but many of its windows had been shattered. According to a Vatican City broadcast, the famed Studio del Musaico (mosaic workshops) stood unroofed, the Governor...
...John K. Cartwright, a Catholic priest, contended that Esquire has a tendency to encourage low ideas of women. When Attorney Bromley brought out the fact that the Catholic Digest has carried reprints from Esquire and that Father Flanagan, of Boys' Town fame, has contributed articles to Esquire, Witness Cartwright countered: "Bad judgment...
...June 13, 1917, Pershing landed in France. The Allies were bled white by three years of viselike war. They were low in morale and committed to holding trenches, but their spirits rose when Pershing and the A.E.F. arrived. The leaders of the British and French were eager to absorb this fresh new blood into their own thin blood streams...
...requests to submit to the monarch: Oscar Wilde asked permission to copy some of the poetry "written by the Queen when young." ("Really!" snorted Her Majesty, "Never could the Queen in her whole life write one line of poetry serious or comic or make a Rhyme even.") A Miss Low asked "if she can be informed whether Your Majesty as a child liked dolls." ("The Queen has no hesitation in saying that she was quite devoted to dolls...