Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...registered for the draft, sat down to talk things over. They came to a solemn conclusion: "In no other field has safety engineering been as much neglected as in warfare." To rectify this situation, they organized on the spot the Honorable Order of Cannon Fodder, Ltd. Motto: "Peace, it's wonderful." Attorney Douglas E. Bergman issued a nationwide invitation to all registrants to join, imposed two conditions : 1) they must favor the draft; 2) they must have no political aspirations, since he has already had himself elected national president...
...British forces, H.M.S. Ajax flirted with the shrouded Sicilian coast to draw the Italians out. This was the light cruiser which had run the Admiral Graf Spee to cover in Montevideo last winter. Tall, square-jawed Captain E. B. D. McCarthy was itching for a chance to test the motto of his new command: Nec quisquam nisi Ajax (colloquially: You can't do nothing till Ajax comes...
...money and life and human dignity by not sticking together, we will start our own counterrevolution to unite the world." He had been one of the last survivors in a trench at Verdun. " 'Since that day,' the little grey-haired diplomat said, 'I have had my motto: . . . There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them...
...flag is the Cross of Lorraine, red, with two horizontal bars on a white field. Motto of De Gaulle's "Free Frenchmen": Honor & Country, Valor & Discipline. *Germany estimated the Allied bill for upkeep of their 1918-30 Armies of Occupation...
...urged that this independence be conserved by members of the Class of '44, rather than wasted in "banjo-playing and beer-drinking." Recognizing that "these are challenging times," we should "avoid irritating partisan discussions and go after the real problems," in the spirit he summed up by the motto "For Harvard, for Country...