Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plans of the High Command, gathering weight. When it came, Churchill warned, it would be the "bloodiest portion of the war." When that time would be was the High Command's secret. Also a deep secret was its route. The shortest way is across France and the Low Countries, the same road over which the Wehrmacht poured...
...Cranborne (Robert Cecil), Leader of the House of Lords, became Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, a position he held from 1940 to 1942, when he became Lord Privy Seal. Cranborne lives at Cranborne, where he raises roses rare and magnificent, plays a smacking croquet game called "golf," collects Low cartoons (see p. 38), talks good British politics. He resigned with Anthony Eden over Britain's appeasement of Italy in 1938, is impersonally competent...
Food prices are almost double what they were in 1939; clothing prices are more than double. And they are still climbing. Wages, always low, are far behind...
...Alley's veterans. Almost any simple soul might write hillbilly words and the composition of hillbilly music has always been regarded by Tin Pan Alley as a variety of unskilled labor, Chief among the newcomers are Texas-born Al Dexter (Pistol Packin' Mama), Indiana-born Freddie Rose (Low & Lonely, I'll Reap My Harvest in Heaven), the Carter Family of Bristol, Va. (I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes), Texas-born Bob Wills (New San Antonio Rose...
...floodlights, so that everyone could see him, Father Heitker stood before the grey and yellow marble altar. Worshipers intently watched his hands and lips. While his busy fingers formed signs, his lips formed words, which he spoke in a low voice. Most of the congregation were deaf-mutes, who followed the sermon by means of sign language. Those merely hard of hearing read his lips...