Word: memento
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...memento Britanniae, he took along an air-raid siren, which he intends to install at his Cape Cod home; he thought it would be a good way to call the swarming Kennedy children ashore from their boats...
...years ago the publicity men of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., who are proud of 20th-century civilization, decided to leave a memento of their civilization to the future. The memento was to be not just a written record, but a miniature museum, an assortment of characteristically 20th-century objects packed into a "Time Capsule." It just happened that the New York World's Fair was coming up, so they decided to address the capsule to savants of 6939-5,000 years after the Fair's first year...
...previously received, the Distinguished Service Cross, the erect, silver-haired, kindly-faced old man walked into his darkened War Department office. On its walls hung oil portraits of the five U. S. Generals of the Armies: Washington, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Pershing. On its neat, massive desk stood a single memento: an old World Series baseball with fading autographs. Quizzed by a battery of surrounding newshawks, he had slow, measured words of hope for the British. Later, in a broadcast, he had a sober, grim warning for Americans: "We must face the facts of today. . . . The danger is imminent. ... To meet...
...action during the war of M. A. S.-motoscafi, anti-sommergibile, "motor boats against submarines." An Italian specialty, these darting little craft armed with two torpedo tubes, manned by ten men, will make 47 knots. The poet Gabriele d'Annunzio used to say that their initials stood for "memento audare semper"-"remember always to be brave." Five of them buzzed out from Pegadia to the attack. The destroyer Ilex spurted forward, intercepted them, sank two, damaged a third, and sent the other pair hightailing. As the vessels moved off, Italian planes attacked, but were repulsed with the loss...
...London University, was a star language student, tutored for some years, took up with Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists in 1933. He became Mosley's speechifying director of propaganda. In 1937, he was kicked out, formed Britain's National Socialist League. As a memento of one Fascist brawl in Great Britain, Joyce carries the scar of a razor slash from mouth to right ear. The British Catholic Herald, after considerable inquiry among Joyce's former associates, stated flatly: "Lord Haw-Haw is William Joyce." The Herald further reported that Joyce had been brought...