Word: mongrelization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over New Mexico is immaculately blue. On May 8, that clear blue sky will be gashed by a dirty grey-white smoke trail. The first German-American V-2 rocket, a mongrel fabricated by U.S. engineers, Army ordnance men and German scientists from odds & ends of captured German V-2s, will be launched from the White Sands (N.M.) Army Ordnance Proving Ground. If the experts have figured correctly (see diagram), the rocket may be expected to zoom faster and higher than any projectile has yet flown, with the possible exception of a few wartime German V-2s. If the Army...
...Importance of Being Earnest and The Voice of the Turtle. The comparisons, however, were on a basis of genre rather than genius; Playwright Rattigan's sun starts to set after a bright first act. Mixing all-too-familiar elements, While the Sun Shines winds up as both a mongrel and a bit of a museum piece...
...staff general had seen it with his own eyes: an MP outfit in Brittany had trained its pet hare and a mongrel dog to chase each other. Dutifully making his report, the staff general reported the phenomenon to his commander. Blimped his boss...
...about to have pups again, and Mom, we can't have them pups born into a world that ain't free and bright, can we, even if it's the way you said old Bess got out that night and was bred by that mongrel next door, so, Mom, I got right out of my ditch and fixed that tank good and proper, and also the burp-gun and the Boche infantry, and we will get this here war over, Mom, just as soon as we can for you and Dad and old Bess, and a better...
...Division General stooped and gingerly pinned a Silver Star on Chips's collar. Chips, ex-pet of Gail and Nancy Wren of Pleasantville, N.Y., a mean-looking mongrel with the head of a German shepherd and the body of a husky, casually wagged his tail. But things might have been different. When General "Ike" Eisenhower visited the regiment, Chips bit the Commander-in-Chief's hand...