Word: mislaid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about 6,000,000 impatient Europeans will start walking home. That was the guess, last week, of Fred K. Hoehler, UNRRA's director of "displaced persons," who figures that by war's end the number of mislaid people in Europe will still bearound 15,000,000-not counting prisoners...
UNRRA wishes they would wait for transportation but knows that they will be impatient. An estimated 11,000,000 mislaid people will be found in Germany: 600,000 Belgians, 1,000,000 Czechs, 3,000,000 French (including remaining war prisoners), 500,000 Dutch, 3,000,000 Poles, 2,000,000 Russians, 200,000 Yugoslavs, 6,000 Norwegians, 500,000 Italians. Since the Allied armies will be controlling Germany, UNRRA has just signed an agreement with General Dwight D. Eisenhower...
Gunder ("The Wonder") Hägg, hollow-cheeked Swedish track star, ordered to report for military training in the" Swedish Army, reported for duty one day late, gave as excuse the statement that his charwoman had mislaid the induction notice, was promptly given five days in the guardhouse...
...good thing for people to think it is." When Justice McReynolds snapped a question at a green young lawyer, Holmes woke with a start, barked: "I wouldn't answer that question if I were you," fell back into a doze. When he lost his temper because his secretary mislaid a book, Mrs. Holmes found the volume, stuck an American flag in it and a big sign: "I AM A VERY OLD MAN. I HAVE HAD MANY TROUBLES, MOST OF WHICH NEVER HAPPENED." When he read the sign, Holmes laughed till he cried...
Department of Agriculture officials mislaid 5,000,000 pigs. They had estimated last year's output of pigs at an alltime high of about 105,000,000. The market figures showed no such thing. Somewhere, somehow, 5,000,000 pigs had disappeared -hoof, hide and holler...