Word: mention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mention Radar, no matter how blue the eyes...
...mention Radar or so I've been told...
Nudity Is Not Enough. There was only a skeleton staff hanging around in the tabloid Daily News's city room when the Associated Press teletype clattered briefly, spewed forth a two-paragraph bulletin about the discovery of Patricia Lonergan's body. Customary Sunday evening doldrums vanished. Mention of a "nude body" and the murder weapons (candlesticks) was promising. But only when they saw "triplex apartment" and"Beekman Hill" did News staffers know they had something. The fastest-breaking crime staff in the U.S. swung into action...
...Americans speak of first and second joints of chicken because it was once impolite to use the word leg. It was also bad taste to mention the breast of a chicken - hence white and dark meat...
...Mark S. Watson and a correspondent of the London Times. He told them that Mussolini had sought to dissuade Hitler from war in 1939, but that the swift advance of the Germans through Belgium and France in May 1940 changed his mind. In placing the blame, Badoglio omitted to mention King Vittorio Emanuele's signing of the declaration...