Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Danger of Churchgoing. Then religion is a staff and a rod: "As I came away from the Evening Service, walking home from that Sabbath adventure, some neighbours of mine met and passed me in their motor, laughing. Were they laughing at me? I wondered uneasily; and as I sauntered across the fields I vaguely cursed those misbelievers. Yes, yes, their eyes should be darkened, and their mocking lips put to silence. They should be smitten with the botch of Egypt, and a sore botch in the legs that cannot be healed...
...dogs in service, the Army took 19,000. More than half saw active service-140 as mine-detecting dogs, 151 as messengers, 268 as sleigh dogs, 541 as scouts, and more than 9,000 as sentries. Of the 15 breeds originally enlisted, German shepherds, Belgian sheep dogs, farm collies, Doberman pinschers and schnauzers turned out to be most satisfactory. Best all-around breed was the German shepherd...
...Make Mine Music: a super-variety show, in which an operatic whale sings in an Eddy baritone...
Said Gabriela: "The New World has been honored through me. . . . The victory is not mine but America...
Weevils & Bulls. The Lomaxes followed The Boll Weevil Song ("Boll Weevil done et my cotton, done started in on my corn") from Texas to the Atlantic, recording a different version of the little bug at each stop. They went to Tennessee for the sad saga of Coal Creek mine disasters ("No more pay days at Coal Creek...