Word: musketeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Volunteer Hunt always lost the screws to his musket during lock drill...
...Admiral Helfrich's veins runs the same sort of blood as that of the great Dutch naval heroes: Admiral Martin Harpertzoon Tromp, who fought the Spaniards and the British with equal ferocity and died with a British musket ball in his heart; his subordinate and student, Michel de Ruyter, whose conquering fleet once sailed up the Medway to within 30 miles of London; Vice Admiral Pieter Pieterzoon Hein, a splendid buccaneer who earned fame, plunder and death at the hands of Dunkirk pirates. These and other 17th-Century seadogs won for the Dutch the empire whose rich remnants Conrad...
...scion of generations of Pennsylvanians (Great-Grandfather Nicholas Ickes shouldered a musket at the age of 16 for the Continental Army in the Revolution). Harold went to the University of Chicago, became campus correspondent for the Chicago Record, graduated, went to work as a reporter on space rates, some weeks earning as much as 75?. Just as the ax was about to fall, he came on the dream of a cub reporter: a big scoop. Chicago newspapers had been looking for a missing Mamie Doane for weeks. Returning from the morgue one day, where he had inspected a drowned possible...
...seemed a queer ballad for a nun to tackle. But even at its climax-when the landlord's daughter warns her lover of the King's men, by shattering her breast with a musket shot-the Noyes was expertly joined by Sister Martina's warm, robust music...
...there was disappointment, doubt, ill will over his failure. So Whitney went to the White House with a boxful of ten gunstocks, ten barrels, ten triggers, etc., let President John Adams, General William North, Thomas Jefferson, other awed officials choose at random the parts from which a single excellent musket was quickly assembled. It was an unprecedented event in military and industrial history. The Government leniently extended Whitney's contract. His machine shop hummed...