Word: mouthsful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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U.S. and British soldiers crouched on the dark beaches, waited for ambushes, hunted for snipers. None was seen. German batteries four miles inland kept their peace. Of the few Germans in sight, four were drunks caught in a staff car, four others were found asleep. The few casualties were caused...
Tall, cheerful, benign, the son of a poor man who died soon after he was born, Confucius (551-478 B.C.) married at 19, fathered a son and two daughters, was put in charge of the granary of Baron Chi of Lu, became superintendent of herds and parks and at 22...
"We swept out to sea echeloned in a single long line to the right, then dropped down until the ocean surface almost touched the bellies of our planes and the props lifted spray into the air, filling our mouths with a salty taste. . . . The first sign of action was a...
Boyce and Tut decided they could play better if they confined their relationship to music and nothing else. So for two weeks they didn't speak to one another and didn't even look at each other. Folks used to travel all the way from Milwaukee just to see Boyce...
Through an official of the Gueules Cassees (literally the "Broken Mouths," an organization of facially disfigured World War I veterans), the two women got Gray off their hands, but not off their minds. They had outwitted the Gestapo, but there were some 10,000 British soldiers who had been left...