Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oldsters are more stable than the young, change their jobs less often and, contrary to what many suppose, have far fewer accidents: one study showed that mill hands over 60 suffered only half as many accidents as those in their 20s; as automobile drivers, oldsters (up to 60) are safer than youngsters...
Chief benefit of the new brown-out regulations to the ordinary, run-of-the-mill Harvard student will be that he need have no guilty feeling of having sunk a ship by forgetting to pull down his window-shades. The popularity of Widener's main reading room is expected to increase tremendously as bleary-eyed students are granted enough light to read...
...next day the Nazi propaganda mill ground thrilling details: how the loyal Führer "himself prepared the plan for freeing his friend"; how Italian guards had orders to shoot the ex-Duce if anyone tried to free him; how "SS Commandos," despite those orders, whisked off their man "without a scratch"; how grateful Mussolini had movingly phoned the Führer after his release. The Berlin claim fitted into Adolf Hitler's unfolding scheme for Italy under Nazi control. That scheme called for a puppet Fascist regime, set up in Mussolini's name but probably under direction...
...above a mud-slinging match." In Bermuda nighttime Hamilton will be a sight for Lord Burghley to see. Its blacked-out, coral streets are packed with residents, visitors, soldiers. & sailors on shore leave. There is practically no civilian automobile traffic, and crowds too big for the sidewalks mill into the streets. Hotspots serve weak drinks at stiff prices...
...Moscow, the Army's Red Star jubilantly announced that improved types of YAKs, LAGGs and Stormoviks had been put into action. To Russia's common man this was no run-of-the-mill war item; it was the first solid proof that the aircraft factories transplanted to the rocky Ural soil had grown to maturity...