Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gladstone, son of a Cabinet Minister, he was born to the salons of British power. Tall, heavy-mustached, with a penchant for double-breasted waistcoats, he has a personal charm that smooths all paths for him. His business abilities were established beyond cavil by his spectacular rise in the metals industry, wherein he first became manager of the giant British Metal Corp. and then fathered a world tin cartel...
...midafternoon one company had worked its way ahead through a field and come in sight of its immediate objective. It was a long concrete fort, ringed with mines and dominating a ridge barring the way to Cherbourg. There the battalion used time and metal to save men. Instead of assaulting the fort, the commander called for drenching artillery and mortar fire, then sifted his infantry in cautiously to clear up what resistance was left...
Fuzzie Wuzzies Humphrey Bogart and Greer Garson, voted the best cinemactor and actress by General MacArthur's troops, got the first "Fuzzy Wuzzy" Oscars: effigies of Fiji Islanders mounted on fragments of Jap airplane metal...
...each stop Lutes had to assemble the combat staffs' meticulous descriptions of all objectives to be attacked, translate them into orders for the correct types of pontoons, structural metal, fabricated units, ammunition, thousands of other items of supply...
University of Pennsylvania's Track Coach Lawson Robertson took swift advantage of this news. Summoning reporters and photographers, he demonstrated a Danish gadget guaranteed to be proof against both nervous sprinters and unskillful starting officials. In front of each runner's marks lie two metal plates connected by wire to the starting gun. Unless every runner has his fingers on his plates the gun cannot be fired...