Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, since the G.O.P. Convention I have shorn my long hoary beard, discarded my rationed tatters, lifted mine eyes unto the hills, for I hear thunder in the Catskills, and it "ain't" duck pins, either...
John L. Lewis (last week his United Mine Workers came out for Dewey), the candidate said: "My plans are not definite...
Leghorn, Italy's third largest port, was outflanked. Lieut. General Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army sidestepped fantastically thick mine fields on the Tyrrhenian coast by swinging in its shock troops, including Hawaiian-Japanese (see ARMY & NAVY) from the east, forced the Germans to pull...
...Hitler had been present, and when the grenade-or was it a Teller mine?-exploded under the table, the explosion tore the pants off everyone present. When Benito Mussolini arrived a short time later, Hitler held up the ragged remnants to show that nothing worse had happened to him. Hitler was verging on a nervous breakdown, terrified of further attempts on his life, had -deserted Berchtesgaden for a heavily guarded Rhineland estate...
...story centers around 9-year-old Stinky and his pet dancing caterpillar, Curley. Jerry Flynn, a washed-up producer, sees a gold mine in Curley and sets out to exploit him as the phenomenon of the century. Stinky, quito naturally, will not part with his pot, and Flynn spends three reels trying to make the worm a national figure without breaking the boy's heart. Newspaper headlines scream the daily intimacies of Curley's life. School children wear Curley sweaters. And everyone stops worrying about the war for a minute to sit back dreamily and think about the charming fairy...