Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generals were flabbergasted. Luftwaffe experts agreed that lack of airfields, shortage of transports, bad weather made it impossible to supply the hedgehog. There was one exception, one man who invariably said what his-master liked to hear. That man stood up and said: "My Fuhrer, I take over the responsibility of supplying the Sixth Army." It was Reich Marshal Hermann Goring...
...Churchill's." President Roosevelt drove about Cairo in a special Packard, bulletproofed with sheets of glass that weighed 90 lb. He called it "my county jail." His driver was Master Sergeant Harold A. Crotta, of Butler, N.J., who proudly showed correspondents a little pile of cigar ash on the running board. Said Sergeant Crotta: "Yep. It's Churchill...
...home, the recorder's anticipated uses range from catching the baby's early cooing to reproducing broadcast music. Cellophane records, unlike disks, cannot be produced in quantity by molding from a master record, but Fonda expects no great difficulty in finding ways to achieve mass production. Neither do the young manufacturers behind the making of the Fonda recorder, Jefferson-Travis Radio Manufacturing Corp...
...Master of Ceremonies. The chief contribution of its outgoing president to N.A.M.'s big show was a redefinition and embellishment of industry's favorite cliché: free enterprise. From now on, said Frederick C. Crawford of Cleveland's Thompson Products, N.A.M. would not stand for "free enterprise," but for "free, private, competitive enterprise . . . the absence of all uncontrolled monopoly and special privilege wherever they may have been found in the past." Prior to this unmistakably official statement, free enterprise could as well as not have been interpreted-and was, by some N.A.Magnates-as freedom to restrain...
...overseers and honored guests of the party were the staff officers who attended. Yours truly was selected from a group of two to act as a poor imitation of master-of-ceremonies. (The other delegate did not attend.) The guests that were introduced were Lt. (jg) E. A. Juhl who gave us an interesting and humorous poem, Lt. (jg) A. E. Kenison who gave us a professional version of night-club entertainment, also our Oklahoma disbursing Officer, Lt. (jg) L. F. Worley, who drawls so slow that we heard his speech five minutes after he left the platform...